Reviews

The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart

caffeinated_reads3's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

4.0

leonplaysintheuniverses's review

adventurous inspiring lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Very mehhhh. Veryyy mehhhh mehhhh mehhh. Look up Mephi fan art and you’ll know why I kept reading

ethias's review

5.0

I truly enjoyed this book, some parts dragged a bit due to my wanting to get back to other POVs but overall an easy and fun read! Especially toward the end it was very fun to see everything tie in and become connected, the author did very well making everything feel so seamless. Looking forward to tackling book two.

bluejaybooks's review

A quite satisfying read. Though I do think that the author might have a hard time following up with the sequel.

Spoiler

*spoiler* Reforming a corrupt government narratives are difficult to write in a satisfying way. There also remains the huge dilemma of being unable to stop taking people's bone shards without killing those the shards were used to create.

But I'm still very excited to see where this leads and think there is a lot of potential.

vermilionred's review

4.0

A few too many POV characters to start with (Sand's probably could have been compressed to one chapter at the end of the book), but came together in a really solid way at the end.

shewsam's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

saholland's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Violence, and Slavery

kweyna's review

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

rheagoveas's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

nonesensed's review against another edition

5.0

Lin is the daughter of the emperor, and yet not. Having lost plenty of her memories to an illness she's fighting to cement her place as heir through earning keys to the palace's doors and to the skill only emperors have: building magical constructs powered by the life force of the empire's citizens. Jorvis is fleeing both from an organized crime empire and the empire itself while desperately seeking his kidnapped wife. He crosses paths with a strange creature that will change his life drastically. Phalue is doing her best to convince her lover to marry her. Being the governor's heir isn't helpful in this, mostly because the governor is terribly wasteful with his money and Phalue's lover is very concerned about how this affects the people he governs. And then there is Sand...

This is one of those books that, when I was halfway through, I had to go get the rest of the series because I had so many questions I needed answers to (in a good way)! In short, it's an engaging tale. The main characters start out at different points both geographically, socially and mentally, and by the end it all comes together in a weave of plot threads that makes you shout, "A-HA!" and "I AM HAVING EMOTIONS!" Also, the setting is a human civilization that lives on migrating clusters of islands with hints of hidden history, so that's an extra plus to me.

Recommended reading! I'm off to start on book 2 :)