I started Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White, book two of the Song of the Last Kingdom Series by Amélie Wen Zhao

"It is the duty of those with power to protect those without." - Sòng Méi

I started Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White, book two of the Song of the Last Kingdom Series by Amélie Wen Zhao.

The Demon Gods are freed, two bargained with and two missing. Well named they are, for as demons their power is Yin, destruction, yet as gods they hold the strength to save the Hin from the Elantian colonizers. Thus begins a race, thus continues a brutal war, with nothing less than the freedom of the Last Kingdom and the souls of Lan and Zen on the line. "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," once said Dé’zì, grandmaster of School of the White Pines. A truth that may destroy the Elantians, yes (particularly a certain Alloy), yet I fear Lan and Zen now occupy those ancient poles. I fear the price of the two bargains and fulfilling the mission of the Order of Ten Thousand Flowers, however necessary both may be.

“Power is always borrowed, never created.” - a Hin saying