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Shen Tao

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Website

https://www.shentao.ca

Genre

Fantasy

Member Since

June 2024

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https://www.goodreads.com/storygoose

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USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling and award-winning author Shen Tao immigrated to Canada at a young age, and grew up inspired by both Chinese and Western stories. Her debut novel, The Poet Empress, will be translated into 19 languages.

You can find her at shentao.ca or on Instagram @storygoose.

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Average rating: 4.38 · 47,269 ratings · 11,935 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

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Quotes by Shen Tao (?)

“It is true, he has suffered, but if everyone who suffered became monsters, the world would be overrun with them.”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress

tags: forgiveness, humanity, monster

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“It could be the greatest nation in the world, the most magnificent empire there ever existed. But if it could not keep its own children and fed, was it really something worth fighting to save?”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress

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“I had not become so wicked in my heart that I had stopped believing people could change. If a gentle child could turn into a monster, I thought, then surely a monster could become gentle again.”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress

tags: humanity, monster

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2nd Quarter 2026 - Fantasy #2

The Last Labyrinth by Gwendolyn Womack (347 pp)

3 votes, 37.5%

Startup Hell by Caitlin Rozakis (432 pp)

2 votes, 25.0%

The Poet Empress by Shen Tao (432 pp)

2 votes, 25.0%

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor (368 pp)

1 vote, 12.5%

This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews (480 pp)

0 votes, 0.0%

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (400 pp)

0 votes, 0.0%

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