#BlogTour ‘The Bone Shard Emperor’ by Andrea Stewart

About the book…

Andrea Stewart returns with The Bone Shard Emperor, the second instalment of this unmissable, action-packed, magic-laced fantasy epic.

The Emperor is Dead. Long live the Emperor.  
 
Lin Sukai finally sits on the throne she won at so much cost, but her struggles are only just beginning. Her people don’t trust her. Her political alliances are weak. And in the north-east of the Empire, a rebel army of constructs is gathering, its leader determined to take the throne by force.  
 
Yet an even greater threat is on the horizon, for the Alanga – the powerful magicians of legend – have returned to the Empire. They claim they come in peace, and Lin will need their help in order to defeat the rebels and restore peace.  
 
But can she trust them? 

Many thanks to the ever awesome Tracy Fenton from Compulsive Readers and Nazia from Orbit Books for the blog tour invite, and gifted review copy of The Bone Shard Emperor by Andrea Stewart which is out now!

What is worse than trying to gain your birth right? How about getting it

In the highly anticipated sequel to ‘The Bone Shard Daughter’, Lin has successfully over thrown her father and ascended to a throne which she might find as deadly and treacherous as she once found desirable.

For a young girl struggling to hold together a fractured empire,she has more than just economic and cultural concerns over social change to worry about. Surrounded by a world which is divided by want and greed, facing the results of the bone shard magic which enslaved her father, she has her work cut out.

However, she is not alone . The disparate threads and narratives of the first novel are coming together in a way which satisfies this reader very deeply. People smuggler Jovis and creature Mephi, whom he rescued from the sinking Deerhead Island return, to my joy. Ranami the social activist and anti-establishment fighter of values also returns with love interest Phalue. Who could not love a book with a same set relationship which is not just a norm, but an accepted norm? Phalue’s family love her exactly how she is and neat opposition to Lin, her father is happy to have a daughter succeed him.

It does everything which you would hope for from the middle book of a trilogy. It builds the anticipation for the climax, whilst further rooting the reader into the Drowning Empire. Here,Andrea Stewart has created a fantasy novel which will appeal to so many readers, and will repay repeated visits many times over. People might be out off by the chunky page numbers but honestly,it does not feel like you have read hundreds of pages. The story passes by so quickly!

I LOVED it and am excited for, but also nervous about, next year’s finale and who will be alive to read it?!

About the author…

Andrea Stewart is the Chinese American of immigrants, and was raised in a number of places across the United States.

Her parents always emphasized science and education, so she spent her childhood immersed in Star Trek and odd-smelling library books.

When her (admittedly ambitious) dreams of becoming a dragon slayer didn’t pan out, she instead turned to writing books. She now lives in sunny California, and in addition to writing, can be found herding cats, looking at birds, and falling down research rabbit holes

Links-http://www.andreagstewart.com/

Twitter @andreagstewart @orbitbooks @Tr4cyF3nt0n