The Wall of Storms
— Worth the detour
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Emperor Kuni Garu's hard-won peace is shattered when an invincible foreign armada appears on the horizon, bringing technology and tactics that Dara's defenders have never encountered. The sequel to The Grace of Kings expands the world's scope dramatically, introducing new characters and new cultures while deepening the political and philosophical questions at the series' heart. Ken Liu's silkpunk epic continues to draw on Chinese history — this volume echoes the Mongol invasions — while building something that belongs to no single tradition. The military strategy is inventive, the character work is rich, and the moral complexity never simplifies. An epic about defending a civilization — and the discovery that the cost of survival may be becoming something unrecognizable.
