SuitabookDarhan
Sylvain Hotte
- Reading
- As this is the tenth book in a series, consider checking whether your reader knows the returning characters; pause to recap relationships and discuss how the peril feels as it unfolds.
- Themes
- Cruelty and power: A new Mongol emperor is described as willing to use extreme cruelty to stop the Song from retaking Kaifeng as armies approach Beijing. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Family and supernatural danger: Darhan and Zara prepare to face Zao Jong, a shape-changing necromancer in dragon form who has taken the souls of their son and friends. The family and friends' peril drives the confrontation; how it ends and what the danger means to them remain unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The plot includes a child whose soul is taken by a soul-eating dragon, friends in the same danger, and an emperor described as willing to use unlimited cruelty.