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He Who Drowned the World: the epic sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling historical fantasy She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, 2)

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There is not a single moment in the first 95% of the book where someone is moved by kindness or decency. Her lowered voice issued an invitation for Zhu to lean down from her horse, to let her ear drift so close to those murmuring lips that she might have felt each syllable on her skin had it not been for the thin barrier between them. If She Who Became the Sun was the focus on desire, He Who Drowned the World is the focus on suffering.

Zhu is a hero unlike any other - her propulsive desire to survive at any cost powers a glorious novel that encompasses grand betrayal, love, loss and triumph . he was the moon eating the sun, and it was his racing shadow that stole the life from the world below. While She Who Became the Sun was slow and focused on a couple of characters, He Who Drowned the World quicken the pace and raised the stakes higher and higher until the only thing you could do was keep reading.She is conniving because she has to be and she so desperately desires more of the world but her options and perceptions of her possibilities are limited. The tone is markedly more somber than in the prequel, and the narrative is permeated with a sense of oppressive hopelessness and despair.

In She Who Became the Sun we see their similarities discussed alongside their vast differences, but in this book we are allowed to see their connections in an even sharper light.

It’s not so much that the violence is especially graphic, it’s that there is almost no respite from it. That empathy makes all of the punches hurt just that much more; on some level, despite knowing that these are terrible, no-good, very bad people, you often find yourself still wishing that they would win the day and finally find some peace. While I do acknowledge that these parts played an important role in the characterization and plot throughout the book, I would have preferred them to be more off-page and/or much less graphic. The political intrigue, character development and the relationships between characters were all so well written. The sunshine sawdust smell and the breeze flowing unchecked through the construction sites; the uncluttered sky that seemed bigger and bluer than anywhere else Zhu had lived: the possibility contained in all that newness thrilled her to her bones.

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