She could have renamed her characters and plonked them down in medieval England with no real narrative impact. Can they rally their people together against the oppressive regime and conquer forbidden love too? While Mead may be commended for attempting to create a world based on a non-Western culture, her use of Chinese mythology and culture is superficial at best. After several harrowing adventures and near misses, Fei and Li Wei discover the horrific truth behind their circumstances. Fei teams up with her childhood sweetheart, Li Wei, and they descend the mountain together. One day, Fei wakes up with her hearing miraculously restored, the perfect “weapon” to save her village. However, with many villagers losing their sight, Zhang Jing included, and dwindling food supplies, something must be done. As artists who record daily events pictorially, Fei and her sister, Zhang Jing, live a more comfortable life than most. In exchange, they send down precious metals. For generations, they’ve been cut off from the rest of the world and rely on a zip line that carries food up from the valley below. Fei, like her fellow villagers, cannot hear or speak. Bestselling teen author Mead weaves Chinese folklore, themes of family, courage, and loyalty, plus her signature romance into her first stand-alone fantasy novel.Īt the top of a jagged mountain, an isolated mining village exists in silence.
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