Sacrifice is the follow up to Serpentine, and it’s a nice continuation of the story. It’s an enjoyable story, and the setting is unique and well developed. There were a couple of focus shifts in this book that cause me to side-eye it a little more, but I do still recommend it. Sacrifice picks up right where Serpentine leaves us. Skybright has agreed to journey with the immortal Stone and Zhen Ni and Kai Sen go back to their lives and try to move on with their […]
Serpent Demon
Serpentine is set in the same world as Cindy Pon’s other series, The Kingdom of Xia. However, as I’ve never read those, I can’t comment as to whether the events there have anything to do with the ones in this novel. I really enjoyed this novel though, it’s a quick read that uses the under-utilized fantasy resource of Chinese legends and mythology as it’s base. For this alone, it is well worth the read. Skybright is the head handmaiden to the youngest daughter of a […]