The Veiled Throne by Ken Liu is a thrilling addition to the Dandelion Dynasty Series. The story is an intricate, elegant epic tale set in a fantasy version of ancient China with pre-industrial technology added. The book focuses on the royalty, common folk, soldiers, enemies, gods, and bamboo punk technology of the fictional empire of Dara. The plot weaves together heartwarming scenes with sadness, balancing various plotlines and character arcs. The book introduces new characters and clever plot twists, such as a cooking competition that serves as a microcosm of the Lyucu Dara war, keeping the reader entertained and engaged.
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Content warnings are medium due to the inclusion of graphic violence and the themes of war and occupation.
From The Publisher:
With the invasion of Dara complete, and the Wall of Storms breached, the world has opened to new possibilities for the gods and peoples of both empires as the sweeping saga of the award-winning Dandelion Dynasty continues in this third book of the "magnificent fantasy epic" (NPR).
Princess Théra, once known as Empress Üna of Dara, entrusted the throne to her younger brother in order to journey to Ukyu-Gondé to war with the Lyucu. She has crossed the fabled Wall of Storms with a fleet of advanced warships and ten thousand people. Beset by adversity, Théra and her most trusted companions attempt to overcome every challenge by doing the most interesting thing. But is not letting the past dictate the present always possible or even desirable?
In Dara, the Lyucu leadership as well as the surviving Dandelion Court bristle with rivalries as currents of power surge and ebb and perspectives spin and shift. Here, parents and children, teachers and students, Empress and Pékyu, all nurture the seeds of plans that will take years to bloom. Will tradition yield to new justifications for power?
Everywhere, the spirit of innovation dances like dandelion seeds on the wind, and the commoners, the forgotten, the ignored begin to engineer new solutions for a new age.
Ken Liu returns to the series that draws from a tradition of the great epics of our history from the Aeneid to the Romance on the Three Kingdoms and builds a new tale unsurpassed in its scope and ambition.
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The writing was good and the plot was interesting but my ebook was almost 2000 pages long and soon felt like a tedious task to pick up. I couldn't get fully emersed in the writing as the page numbers kept stressing me. I hope some day I won't have that problem but at the moment I do
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