Escape Velocity

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Review: He Who Drowned the World – Shelley Parker Chan

Part 2 in the Radiant Emperor – Zhu Chongba having become Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, and shown her desire to the world, she must now find a way to take Dadu, the Yuan capital, and take the title of Great Khan for herself. She is not the only one fighting for this position, however. General Ouyang, the eunuch general who betrayed the Great Yuan, is still out for the ultimate revenge. Madame Zhang is looking for a means to put her husband – whoever he might at that time be – on the throne. And Wang Baoxiang, the new Prince of Henan, has dark plans of his own. As the power struggle in court and on the battlefield reaches a fever pitch, the question becomes: will it be worth all the sacrifices made along the way?

Review: She Who Became the Sun – Shelley Parker-Chan

She Who Became the Sun is an alternate history/historical fantasy novel set in Mongol-conquered China, following the exploits of characters on different sides of the struggle for power: peasant girl trying to take up her brother’s fate and an enslaved general struggling to reconcile the love for his master with his history of oppression.