Her Radiant Curse is the rare prequel that not only stands on its own but offers new insight into one of Six Crimson Cranes' best characters.
Author Elizabeth Lim’s books stand out in the crowded YA fantasy field thanks to their complex heroines, their lushly detailed worldbuilding, and the effortless way their stories incorporate elements of East Asian mythology and folklore alongside more familiar Western fairytale elements. The end results are stories that often feel as delicate and gleaming as the jewels that are found at their centers, but that often hide sharp, unexpected emotional edges underneath.
Now nineteen years old, Channi is an outcast in her village, reviled for her serpent-like appearance, forced to wear a mask in public by her father, and shunned by almost everyone, save for her now nearly seventeen-year-old sibling. As Vanna’s fame grows—fueled by the strange light that seems to glow from her heart—suitors arrive to compete for her hand.
Channi makes for an appealingly flawed heroine—strong and stubborn, loyal and willful, immature and furious. There are moments when she is hard to like, yet her behavior is always understandable, grounded as it almost always is in her bone-deep love for the one person who has never shrunk away from her. As readers of Lim’s other series already know, Channi will one day grow up to be Raikama, the stepmother of that series’ lead character, Princess Shiori.
Throughout her novels, Lim has always excelled at writing complex relationships that never unfold in quite the way you think they will. And that’s doubly true in this story, as not only is Channi’s bond with Vanna repeatedly tested in a variety of unexpected and creative ways, but so is her relationship with Hozkuh, which runs the gamut from deadly enemies to something quite a bit more than friends.
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