I finished Song of Silver, Flame Like Night, book one of Song of the Last Kingdom Series by Amélie Wen Zhao.
Cultural arrogance coupled with colonialism, dehumanization and massacre annoy me (to put it lightly) as a matter of course, which means the Elantian colonizers have well-deserved death coming to them. But the road is fraught with peril and heartbreak. Two bound as though by a Red String of Fate, yet separated by history and Demon Gods, by paths chosen and not. For the Last Kingdom is not exactly innocent and borrowed power kept leads only to generations of war and strife. Lan has a plan to rectify this, a good one, but playing hide-and-seek with Demon Gods and a conqueror's regime is hardly safe, to say nothing of the fact that Zen obviously has his own ideas about how to win this multi-pronged war.
"Yin and yang. Good and evil. Great and terrible. Two sides of the same coin, Lián'ér, and somewhere in the center of it all lies power. The solution is to find the balance between them." - Dé’zì, grandmaster of School of the White Pines.
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