Strike the Zither: 1 (Kingdom of Three)

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I loved the idea of Zephyr and Crow. I loved what I wanted Crow to be and what he was probably hiding (because he most definitely was!). What I did not love was wading through each of their conversations, hoping to find some gem in this book written like “War for Dummies”, to have them be unsatisfactory EVERY.DAMN.TIME! Strike the Zither reimagines the Chinese classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms in a way never seen before, with intense twists and turns that pay homage to its inspiration while being refreshingly different. A brilliant exploration of destiny and identity!’ Strike the Zither reimagines the Chinese classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms in a way never seen before, with intense twists and turns that pay homage to its inspiration while being refreshingly different. A brilliant exploration of destiny and identity!” - Xiran Jay Zhao, New York Times-bestselling author of Iron Widow

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You.” I point my fan at Lotus. “Ride down to the bridge with a hundred of your best and employ Beget Something from Nothing.”Tourmaline nods. “Exactly ten li, a mountain, and a river away from Miasma’s forces. The rain came just as you said it would. It’ll take them at least a day to clear a path, four to go around.”

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Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close And with any good military fantasy, there are many moving parts and characters, all of which He juggles with ease. While our story remains a single POVs (Zephyr’s), Zephyr’s position as Ren’s war strategist requires her to be familiar with all necessary parties (read: threats). Despite the large secondary cast, at no point did I feel confused or overwhelmed. I definitely think that the single-word sobriquets that most characters go by (ie. Miasma, Crow, November) went a long way to retaining character names. Whiler I don’t want to spoil the story, I can definitely say the plot keeps you on your toes, especially after the halfway mark. A beautifully written book with powerful characters and a rollercoaster ride of plot twists that's nearly impossible to put down. What’s in the setting doesn’t quite live up to what’s in the plot. Zephyr is a hard character to empathize with mostly because her attachment to Ku, her sister, seems shoveled in to add the aforementioned empathy. Her narrative voice isn’t truly three-dimensional. Even though readers hear that Zephyr is a strong strategist from others, her first-person point of view doesn’t really make a case for that. The first half of the novel has Zephyr emphasizing what goes into her strategist position without clearly examining the importance of her strategy-making processes or how they came to be. Following that, He throws readers into the story with such a fast momentum that it’s easy to become indifferent to Zephyr’s struggles. Teens 16 and up in a fantasy world drink wine at feasts. Some excess is shown and hangover symptoms are mentioned. One character frequently drank to excess in the past, when she was not a mortal human.Exciting events, fascinating characters and exotic settings to stimulate the imagination of even the keenest fantasy readers.’