Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix by Julie C. Dao

He might be my favorite character from both books.īottom line, this is an excellent sequel to Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, and I think it’s better than the first book. The scene between Ming and Xifeng at the end was absolutely heartbreaking and made me love Ming even more.

I did enjoy the magic cloak and the quest and the final battle. I get why he fell in love with Jade, Jade is amazing. We don’t see what’s so fantastic about her love interest, he isn’t shown as doing anything outstanding, he’s just kind of there and the first male person she’s spent time with. Jade falls in love with no real reason for it. I do feel like the romantic storyline was kind of shoehorned in. We see a few characters from the first book coming back to help Jade in her quest, and I loved seeing how they had grown in the intervening years.

Jade, however, is sweet and determined and loyal and good. I enjoyed Forest, but Kingdom is spectacular! It’s hard to like Xifeng in Forest, where she continually makes the decisions that drag her deeper into the evil god’s clutches. This is the sequel to Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, and where Forest was about the rise of the Empress – or the evil stepmother from Snow White – this book is solidly about Snow White.

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Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix by Julie C. Dao