Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1)

by Amélie Wen Zhao

How was it that such beautiful, ordinary things could continue to exist at a time when her entire world had been upended?

“Yīn is as bad as shadows are bad. Or darkness, or cold, or death. Such concepts are normally dreaded or given negative connotations compared to light and warmth and life…and yet, can you think of a world without them?” Lan could not.

He knew that the true demons in this world wore the faces of men.

So long as there was life, there was hope.