The Bone Shard Daughter
Lin is the heir to the Phoenix Empire, but she cannot remember the years before her mother's death and her father refuses to teach her the bone shard magic that holds the empire together. To prove her worth, she steals into her father's workshop and copies his secrets one drop of blood at a time. Across the islands, a smuggler named Jovis chases the kidnappers who stole his wife, accidentally rescuing children from sacrifice and gaining a strange six-legged companion along the way. Five lives converge as the empire teeters on rebellion.
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An emperor's daughter steals her father's bone-shard magic to claim her birthright while five other lives across a crumbling island empire bend toward revolution.
Andrea Stewart's Drowning Empire trilogy has three books: The Bone Shard Daughter, The Bone Shard Emperor, and The Bone Shard War. The trilogy is complete.
The Bone Shard Daughter is dark fantasy with morally complex characters and on-page violence, but is not as grim as Joe Abercrombie or Glen Cook. It is more often classified as character-driven epic fantasy with political intrigue.
The Bone Shard Daughter was written by Andrea Stewart, published in 2020 by Hachette Book Group and Blackstone Publishing.
The Bone Shard Daughter is 1 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Bone Shard Daughter takes most readers under an hour to finish.
The Bone Shard Daughter is a standalone novel by Andrea Stewart, not part of a series.
The Bone Shard Daughter is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
