The Dawn of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels, #1)

by F.C. Yee

Why are you like this? The answer, here. “I have felt the shame of Avatars gone by,” she said. “Lived through failures not recorded in history. And I can tell you with absolute certainty—not a single one of my past selves that I’ve connected with wishes they waited longer to solve a problem.” Acting only in moments of generational import. Who decided which moments were important? And how many people suffered in between? There had never been any gilded ages, as far as Yangchen had seen.