Bard Reviews: Songs of Insurrection

Songs of Insurrection attracted my attention by it’s beautiful cover, and the fact that I’ve been looking for fantasy story devoid of Western medieval tropes for a change. SOI is a pretty good book. I enjoyed the main characters and the mix of action and intrigue. The main character is an emperor’s daughter named Kaiya, who is an unattractive teen girl. That in itself is something of a novelty. You just don’t come across that too often in novels, especially in main characters. She has a remar...