Most characters are assumed East Asian.įor readers seeking sincere romance and quests, this fulfills its promise.Ĭan a 17-year-old with her first girlfriend prevent real-life folks from discovering her online fandoms?Ĭass is proudly queer, happily fat, and extremely secretive about being a fan who role-plays on Discord.
The story continues to reference the source material from “The Wild Swans” while integrating familiar Chinese myths and legends. The writing is vibrant and colorful, as with the descriptions of palaces both on land and sea, the variety of foods served by street vendors, and the treacherous world of demons. Although the designated villains are still clearly bad, it is her potential allies who help round out the characters’ motivations and present surprises that further Shiori’s personal development. While she still has a sense of mischief and remains quite stubborn, Shiori has learned from the past and tames her impulsivity with a willingness to listen to advice and see past surface appearances.
Her promise to do so will ultimately test and reveal the bonds of family and country as well as her love for Takkan, the boy she left behind. She’s about to confront the Dragon King and learn more about the broken pearl her stepmother left for her to return to its rightful owner. In the conclusion to the story that began in Six Crimson Cranes (2021), Shiori, the Princess of Kiata, begins her adventures at the bottom of the Taijin Sea. It will take every ounce of strength Shiori can muster to defend the life and the love she’s fought so hard to win.A young woman is on a dangerous mission to fulfill a promise. The pearl itself is no ordinary cargo it thrums with malevolent power, jumping to Shiori’s aid one minute, and betraying her the next – threatening to shatter her family and sever the thread of fate that binds her to her true love. She must journey to the kingdom of dragons, navigate political intrigue among humans and dragons alike, fend off thieves who covet the pearl for themselves and will go to any lengths to get it, all the while cultivating the appearance of a perfect princess to dissuade those who would see her burned at the stake for the magic that runs in her blood. Princess Shiori made a deathbed promise to return the dragon’s pearl to its rightful owner, but keeping that promise is more dangerous than she ever imagined. Shiori’s quest continues in the soaring Sunday Times bestselling sequel to the New York Times bestselling young adult fantasy Six Crimson Cranes. And a cursed pearl with the power to mend the world, or break it.
‘A dazzling fairytale’ Stephanie Garber, on Six Crimson CranesĪ dragon’s kingdom.
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