The Bone Shard Daughter is a YA fantasy novel with an east, south-east Asian style culture set in a string of floating islands drifting around in “The Endless Sea”. The emperor of these floating islands keeps the art of bone shard magic (a magic used to animate constructs made from dead flesh using a small shard of bone) a closely guarded secret. Despite his diminishing health, he refuses to pass on the art, even to his own daughter, Lin. Sick of her father’s secrets and living in an empty palace full of locked doors, Lin begins to teach herself bone shard magic with the help of stolen books and stolen friends.
-Stephanie, Circulation
