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Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club

Wed, Feb 28

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Birch Tree Bookstore

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Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club

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Feb 28, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Birch Tree Bookstore, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA

About the event

A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic, in the tradition of Ken Liu's Grace of Kings and N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy.

When Rin aced the Keju--the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies--it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn't believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin's guardians, who believed they'd finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard--the most elite military school in Nikan--was even more surprising.

But surprises aren't always good.

Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the…

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