Audrey Zhou

Wesley Chu’s newest fantasy series specifically examines the impact of legend and military tradition on the lives of the protagonist, a prophesied hero, and the mentors he encounters along the way. The initial book in the series, The Art of Prophecy (2022), introduced Jian, literally designated Hero of the Tiandi, as well as his master Taishi, and shared their quest to fulfill Jian’s destiny: to defeat the Immortal Khan.

It is yours, after all in so far as any creature owns another.

When Li built her first body, she didn’t know for a while what, exactly, she had done. She was too young to understand at the time. The corpse she found at the end of market day, curled at the foot of a fisherman’s stall; she didn’t notice the spirit until it had followed her inside. Li hadn’t met Granny Yuan yet, but perhaps some of her influence had found Li anyway: Li knew to bury the cat and wanted instinctively to find a jar to capture the spirit with, its light blinking like fireflies.