Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amélie Wen ZhaoMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
It’s good to see that far from the attempt to cancel Zhao before she even got published in 2019, she’s already got one completed trilogy under her belt, and this promising start to a new series that’s very well rooted in the stories of her ancestral land. Picture, for this book, an alternate China where European-coded colonists have taken over sometime paralleling the 20th century, but there still lies an ancient and cosmic magic, yīn and yáng, the Crimson Phoenix and Silver Dragon and Azure Tiger and Black Tortoise all waiting for practitioners of banned magic to take back their homeland. And while this book is pretty long and slow moving at times, it wouldn’t be Zhao without a weapons grade cliffhanger or two at the end, including one particularly “oh my God no what is Zhao doing to these poor protagonists?!?” moment, for which this book absolutely earns a 3.5 rounded up to 4 from me.
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