When Zen comes across Lan, he recognizes what she is: a practitioner with a powerful ability hidden in the mark on her arm. Now it must be hidden from the Elantians at all costs. Their magic was rumored to have been drawn from the demons they communed with. Zen is a practitioner-one of the fabled magicians of the Last Kingdom. Until the night a boy appears at her teahouse and saves her life. The mark is mysterious-an untranslatable Hin character-and no one but Lan can see it. Anything to understand the strange mark burned into her arm by her mother in her last act before she died. She spends her nights as a songgirl in Haak’gong, a city transformed by the conquerors, and her days scavenging for what she can find of the past. Now she goes by the one the Elantian colonizers gave her when they invaded her kingdom, killed her mother, and outlawed her people’s magic. Song of Silver, Flame like Night by Amélie Wen Zhao But if she agrees, it will mean guarding her heart against the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot trust, as well as confronting all the horrors she thought she left behind. Now seventeen, Oak is charming, beautiful, and manipulative. He’s on a mission that will lead him into the north, and he wants Suren’s help. Suren is saved by none other than Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, to whom she was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years.

Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains. She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag, Bogdana chases her through the night streets. Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world. There, she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel.

This list includes long expected releases (books by favourite authors!!!), exciting new instalments for series and new books to discover.Įight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But on this list, I truly want to read every single one, preferably right about now. When I started looking up January releases I didn’t expect to find so many.

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