

But Rin has a score to settle with a boy who deceived her, and she is through taking orders. The Monkey Warlord seems more intent on hiding and waiting them out rather than ridding the South of the Muganese and eventually trying to take the country back. Rin and Kitay have moved south with the Monkey Warlord intending to raise a southern army to rival the Republic, only things aren’t quite going the way Rin wants.

We pick up months after the ending of The Dragon Republic. I buddy read this with Leah LeahsBooks and am going to have to steal her favourite quote to sum up how I felt about this book: As her power and influence grows, though, will she be strong enough to resist the Phoenix’s intoxicating voice urging her to burn the world and everything in it? Review! While her new allies in the Southern Coalition leadership are sly and untrustworthy, Rin quickly realizes that the real power in Nikan lies with the millions of common people who thirst for vengeance and revere her as a goddess of salvation.īacked by the masses and her Southern Army, Rin will use every weapon to defeat the Dragon Republic, the colonizing Hesperians, and all who threaten the shamanic arts and their practitioners. Returning to her roots, Rin meets difficult challenges-and unexpected opportunities.

After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the evil Empress Su Daji in a brutal civil war, Fang Runin was betrayed by allies and left for dead.ĭespite her losses, Rin hasn’t given up on those for whom she has sacrificed so much-the people of the southern provinces and especially Tikany, the village that is her home.
