Series
The Radiant Emperor
Shelley Parker-Chan · 2 novels · 2021–2023
The Radiant Emperor reimagines the rise of the founder of a Chinese dynasty as a peasant girl who takes on her dead brother's identity and destiny to survive famine and war, rising through ambition and deception toward the throne. Shelley Parker-Chan's duology, beginning with She Who Became the Sun, follows her against a rival commander on the opposing side of a civil war, concluding in He Who Drowned the World.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
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Stats
By decade
- 2020s2
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- She Who Became the Sundarkest · calmest
- He Who Drowned the Worldbrightest · most intense