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She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


In 14th Century rural China, raiders attack a young girl, her older brother and her father. When they find there is no food, the raiders kill her father and her brother, who had been fated for greatness dies by giving up. The girl, who was fated for "nothingness", determines that she must survive and doesn't see why the greatness that was to be her brother's could not be hers.

Taking his name and identity, she joins a monastery. But when the monastery is burned to the ground, she finds herself adrift again.

Joining the rebels against the Mongolian rulers, she finds that perhaps she can change her fate and be the greatest of all.

++++

I was drawn in from the start. Lyrical writing, compelling characters.

I am looking forward to when book #2 comes out.



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