The Bird and the Blade
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Fantasy / Historical
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Megan Bannen
A sweeping and tragic debut novel perfect for fans of The Wrath and the Dawn and Megan Whalen Turner. This young adult novel is an excellent choice for accelerated tween readers in grades 7 to 8, especially during homeschooling. It’s a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom.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.
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Author
Megan Bannen
Pages
432
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2018-06-05
ISBN
006267417X 9780062674173
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"Literally heartbroken…the author woke up and chose violence. It’s a beautiful story but my gosh I feel like I’ve face planted onto cement…it reminds me of the duology Spin the Daw but heart wrenching"
Cate
"This was a slow yet thrilling book.#romance #fantasy #tearjerker "
Dr. Poison
"I just finished this book and I’m WOAH! I thought I was prepared for this story and had an idea how it would go and how it would end...<br/><br/>I was SO WOEFULLY UNPREPARED for this!<br/><br/>I don’t know everything I think or feel right now - this story is SO loaded and just WOAH!"
Annette W
"This book is so beautiful but it always makes me cry"
Mariam Shah
"forever heartbroken 💔 "
Jamie Owen
"DNF @ 33%<br/>Received from Edelweiss for an honest review.<br/>I for one found myself having no desire to continue this book for one reason only but it's the majority of the book. <br/><br/>Khalaf: *Does something that can be seen by the reader as completely naive and utterly dumb .* (Spoilers His a whole plan to attack this army that had way more men than them that pretty much killed his brothers and his father's whole army.) Also spits some poetry and " knowledge" to show that he has book knowledge but no common knowledge. <br/><br/>Jinghua aka our narrator: " Wow He's so honorable ,amazing, courageous,merciful and handsome! I see my brothers ghost for some reason."<br/><br/>Timaru: " Old man that have every right to ****** off at his son but is seen as a grumpy dude that doesn't understand his son " logic".<br/><br/>DUDE!<br/><br/>Edit: I got approved for it!!!! YES!<br/><br/>Yall<br/><br/>This is what I wrote when I requested this on Edelweiss<br/><br/>"I would love to read this since this remain me of the Opera Turandot by Puccini. Even tho I really wasn't fond of the Opera cause I felt like Turandot got off easy and didn't really learn what a true bitch she was because of her actions. Also I did feel like the slave girl did get the sort end of the stick cause she stuck by the prince for so long while he was too busy trying to woo Turandot. So I am interested in reading this book!"<br/><br/>So really hope I get this book cause Turandot is honestly one of my least fave of Puccini's operas but it's the one that I love to see other people takes on it since he died before he finished it. So another person did I was never ever fond of the ending since I did feel that Turandot did get off easy. It should have been a tragedy with her telling the Prince name which would gotten the prince killed and then her realized what she did wrong and having to live with it. So yeah "fingers cross"<br/><br/>Also <br/>Nessun Dorma is one most beautiful arias there is in operas!! ugh!"
Tanya Tate
