The emperor uses these bone shards to create monstrous constructs that serve as his spies, military, and servants. A few children die every year from the procedure. 8)Įvery child in the empire has a slice of bone carved from their necks for future use in the emperor’s magic. The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart (Orbit Sept. Get it from Bookshop, Target, or your local independent bookstore. This is a fun and delightful young adult contemporary fantasy novel with a swoon-worthy romance. As the three try to help Julian and discover what happened to Yadriel’s cousin, Yadriel and Julian begin to fall in love. When Yadriel’s cousin is murdered afterward, he and Maritza try to find out why - but in doing so, they accidentally raise the ghost of Julian Diaz, a teen who was also murdered. With the help of his friend Maritza, Yadriel successfully completes the ritual without his family’s knowledge. Yadriel is a man, but his family refuses to let him complete the ritual to become a brujo because he's trans. In Yadriel’s traditional Latinx family, women become brujas and practice healing magic, and the men become brujos and help spirits to the land of the dead. Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (Swoon Reads Sept.
Get it from Bookshop, Barnes and Noble, or your local independent bookstore. Both carry many regrets, which prompts them to go on these quests togethers - and these quests will lead them to the evil Ruler of Iyar. In his gender-divided culture, his people struggle with his new identity. The nen-sasair has only recently changed and has lived most of his life as a woman.
Benesret lives as an outcast in the Great Burri Desert and makes bone cloths for the Ruler of Iyar’s assassins.
Uiziya has trained in three of the four magical weaves, but to learn the final weave and create a bone cloth, she needs to train with and her aunt Benesret, a Master Weaver. The two main characters - Uiziya and a nameless man called nen-sasair - are elderly and trans (referred to as "changers"). Lemberg has previously written short stories set in this world, but this is their first longer work. The Four Profound Weaves is a lyrical and complex novella set in Lemberg’s Birdverse Universe.
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