Julie C. Dao
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Book Review: The Song of the Crimson Flower by Julie C. Dao
Julie C. Dao is one of my auto-buy authors — I totally fell in love with Forest of a Thousand Lanterns and adored The Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix. I thought that with the completion of the Rise of the Empress duology, we would leave the world of Feng Lu forever. So imagine my surprise… Continue reading
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Book Review: Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix by Julie C. Dao
I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to have gotten my hands on an early copy of Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix! I read Forest of a Thousand Lanterns earlier this year and absolutely adored it. Xifeng is easily one of my favourite fantasy villains because of her callousness, her calculated choices, and her… Continue reading
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Book Review: Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao
Forest of a Thousand Lanterns was a book I had extremely high hopes for. Billed as an east-Asian retelling of the ‘evil queen’ myth so prevalent in fairy tales. I love a good villain/anti-heroine and I feel like we just don’t get enough of them in fantasy, particularly YA fantasy. So with high hopes for… Continue reading
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