I found Lan to be a complex character, but one I really liked. Lan is the central character of the book, a young woman of eighteen, an orphan who is working in a Teahouse. The myth and folkore in his book is complex in parts but Amélie Wen Zhao’s writing makes this fascinating subject easier to understand and I liked that at the beginning of the book there are details of the history timeline and the belief systems so you can check if you get lost. Since starting to read the Fantasy genre a few years ago I have gravitated to books that have a background in the mythology and folklore of different cultures, and it is the setting in Chinese history, and their mythology that drew me to this book. Song of Silver, Flame Like Night is the new book from Amélie Wen Zhao, best known for her Blood Heir Trilogy. And both hold the power to destroy the world. Both hold the power to liberate their land. Fate has connected them, but their destiny remains unwritten.
Magic to be hidden at all costs.īoth Lan and Zen have secrets buried deep within. Zen is a practitioner, one of the fabled magicians of the Last Kingdom, whose abilities were rumoured to be drawn from the demons they communed with. No one can see the mysterious mark – until the night Zen appears at the teahouse and saves her life. For anything that might help her understand the strange mark burned into her arm by her mother, in her last act before she died. She spends her days scavenging for remnants of the past. Now, she goes by the one the Elantian colonizers gave her. In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to its forgotten past – and the demons that sleep at its heart…
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