I made assumptions going through the book assumptions about character motivations, assumptions about world lore, assumptions about relationships because like Hesina I thought I understood what drove people.
Joan created a world that while familiar feeling on the surface doesn’t sit back and let you assume. If I had to compare DotC to other books I’d find myself hardpressed. With the future of Yan at stake, can Hesina find justice for her father? Or will the cost be too high?
Using the information provided by the sooth, and uncertain if she can trust her family, Hesina turns to Akira-a brilliant investigator who’s also a convicted criminal with secrets of his own. Determined to find her father’s actual killer, Hesina does something desperate: she enlists the aid of a soothsayer-a treasonous act, punishable byĭeath, since magic was outlawed centuries ago. Her advisers would like her to blame the neighboring kingdom of Kendi’a, whose ruler has been mustering for war. Hesina’s court is packed full of dissemblers and deceivers eager to use the king’s death for political gain, each as plausibly guilty as the next. What’s more, Hesina believes that her father was murdered-and that the killer is someone close to her. But when her beloved father is found dead, she’s thrust into power, suddenly the queen of a surprisingly unstable kingdom. Princess Hesina of Yan has always been eager to shirk the responsibilities of the crown, dreaming of an unremarkable life.
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