★ A Buzzfeed “Best New Books of January” Selection and “19 New Fantasy and Science Fiction Books You’ve Got to Read” Selection ★ A PopSugar “Best YA Books of 2023” Selection ★ A Paste Magazine “Most Anticipated Fantasy Books of 2023” Selection ★ Barnes & Noble YA Book Club January Selection ★ A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection ★ “ electrifying fantasy series starter.” – Publisher’s Weekly, starred review 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. He’s never seen anything like it-but he knows: if there are answers, they lie deep in the pine forests and misty mountains of the Last Kingdom, with an order of practitioning masters planning to overthrow the Elantian regime.īoth Lan and Zen have secrets buried deep within. When Zen comes across Lan’s unusual qi, he recognizes what she is: a practitioner with a powerful ability hidden in the mark on her arm.
Magic to be hidden from the Elantians at all costs. Zen is a practitioner-one of the fabled magicians of the Last Kingdom, whose abilities were rumored to be drawn from the demons they communed with. Until the night a boy appears at the teahouse and saves her life.
No one can see the mysterious mark-an untranslatable Hin character-except Lan. 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 nights as a songgirl in Haak’gong, a city transformed by the conquerors, and spends her days scavenging for remnants of the past. Now, she goes by the one the Elantian colonizers gave her when they invaded her kingdom, killed her mother, and outlawed her people’s magic. An epic fantasy series inspired by the mythology and folklore of ancient China. In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to discovering the secrets of her nation’s past-and unleashing the demons that sleep at its heart. I loved it!” -Shelley Parker-Chan, #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of She Who Became the Sun A New York Times and international bestseller! “Perfect for fans of The Untamed.
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