The Bird and the Blade, Megan Bannen
The Bird and the Blade, Megan Bannen
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The Bird and the Blade

Author: Megan Bannen

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged: 10 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 06/05/2018

Synopsis

A sweeping and tragic debut novel perfect for fans of The Wrath and the Dawn and Megan Whalen Turner.The Bird and the Blade is a lush, powerful story of life and death, battles and riddles, lies and secrets from author Megan Bannen. Enslaved in Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home, her family, her freedom . . . until the kingdom is conquered by enemy forces and she finds herself an unlikely conspirator in the escape of Prince Khalaf and his irascible father across the vast Mongol Empire.On the run, with adversaries on all sides and an endless journey ahead, Jinghua hatches a scheme to use the Kipchaks’ exile to return home, a plan that becomes increasingly fraught as her feelings for Khalaf evolve into an impossible love.Jinghua’s already dicey prospects take a downward turn when Khalaf seeks to restore his kingdom by forging a marriage alliance with Turandokht, the daughter of the Great Khan. As beautiful as she is cunning, Turandokht requires all potential suitors to solve three impossible riddles to win her hand—and if they fail, they die. Jinghua has kept her own counsel well, but with Khalaf’s kingdom—and his very life—on the line, she must reconcile the hard truth of her past with her love for a boy who has no idea what she’s capable of . . . even if it means losing him to the girl who’d sooner take his life than his heart.

About Megan Bannen

Megan Bannen is a librarian and the author of The Bird and the Blade. In her spare time, she collects graduate degrees from Kansas colleges and universities. She lives in the Kansas City area with her husband, their two sons, and a few too many pets with literary names. She can be found online at www.meganbannen.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May

“Should you fail to answer correctly each riddle by the end of seven minutes, you shall forfeit your life. Do you understand?” Mongolian fantasy with ghosts and riddles, anyone? Well, this was pretty damn fascinating! I've been putting this book off because I've been so disappointed with almost ev......more

Goodreads review by jessica

wow. thank goodness this is a standalone, because i dont know if my heart will ever recover from that ending. i randomly picked this up at the library because (1) i saw it on a recent GR list and (2) the font was big, meaning i could speed read through it and if i didnt like it, no real time wasted.......more

Goodreads review by Melanie

ARC provided by the publisher via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. “Now, cold and exhausted, a girl disguised as a boy, tottering after the losing end of a battle, I have to second-guess that assessment. It seems to me that I’ve made some choices—some very bad choices—that have led......more

Goodreads review by Hamad

This review and other non-spoilery reviews can be found @The Book Prescription “God does not judge you according to your appearance and your wealth, but He looks at your heart and looks into your deeds” 🌟 So I haven’t heard a lot about this book, I thought for a moment that it wasn’t even out because......more

Goodreads review by Katherine

Wow, this was so beautiful... 😢Sometimes you stumble upon a book that no one is talking about (a book many have never heard of) and you read it, and fall so in love. Fuck..this was amazing. The Bird and the Blade is now one of my favorites books of the year. Maybe Of all time! Where do I even start?......more

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