Six Crimson Cranes

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There was a tiny little splash of romance in here and it was super cute!! 🥹🥹 there were literal CRUMBS but they were really sweet and wholesome together and i loved the guy a lot 🤭❤️ I think my favorite thing about this book was just how well-built it was, from the way the fairy-tale was structured to how smoothly the Asian culture was integrated. There's a world that has walled its magic away, a clever young princess on the verge of adulthood, a bossy dragon-boy, a bunch of annoying but lovable brothers who turn into birds, an unwanted betrothment, an evil stepmother, and a whole lotta twists that change your opinion about the way you see the story to boot!

Now, dragons aren’t supposed to interact with humans, and most people have just dismissed them as old creatures of legend. But Seryu, the dragon Shiori meets, is about her age - and worse, he knows about her magic.

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Alsoooo, if I were Shiori once i told the world who i was and that i was alive i would see everyone that was rude to me and say OFF WITH THEIR HEADS The truth behind the stepmother, Raikama, and why she cursed Shiori and her brothers. A reveal at the end is that Raikama cursed them to keep them safe which is total crap in my opinion. The explanation at the end felt like this: “Yes, I traumatized all seven of you, but it was for your own safety!”. Why not just communicate to Shiori that she’s in danger and then keep her safe with your super powerful magic? Why is it safer to send a sheltered princess off unprotected into the unknown where she could starve, be kidnapped, be killed, etc.? “Oh, and the cherry on top is that you could be responsible for killing your brothers! But it was all done to protect you!”. I don’t mind when a villain turns out to be a hero, but it has to be done much better. Now Shiori's brothers were nice guys but they could have been great if only they stopped treating Shiori like she was going to break. I mean I know elder brothers are way too protective of their sisters but these guys just took it on another level. (or maybe it's just me being jealous because I desperately want an elder brother). There were some many things i really enjoyed in this!! 🥰 One of my fav parts was definitely the writing- it was absolutely gorgeous 🥹🥹 Elizabeth Lim just has really beautiful writing and it paints such a good picture of what's going on. Plus the world was so so magical and i felt so immersed in it. It is completely made up but there was asian culture woven in, which was amazing 💗💗

Shiori is the princess of Kiata, the seventh and only girl child, 16 years old, spoiled by brothers, having hot and cold relationship with her stepmother Raikama : the nameless queen, engaged to be married with third lord of barbarian North named Takkan. Now onto the prince Takken. Now I do love Shiori but this stupid little bitch thought he was a menace and the worst person alive and it turns out he is the loveliest person alive wtf. I do love Takken and he is an angel but I love Seryu more I'm sorry, not sorry. I'm manifesting no love triangle and that she will end up with Seryu and no Takken. They can be besties for life. I'm so sorry Takken my love but dragon boy wins. As one of the longer YA books I've read in a while, I'm glad I took a moment before writing this review to gather my thoughts. This book is LONG, and while that's not always a bad thing, I think my attention strayed a few times because I just had so many books I wanted to get through! And how is Shiori gonna talk to the dragon king? he has the anger of Zeus and that's not good at all. Miss gurl better have her wits about her otherwise shits gonna be messy af.

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Princess Shiori made a deathbed promise to return the dragon’s pearl to its rightful owner, but keeping that promise is more dangerous than she ever imagined. Who taught her sign language? And how does everyone tends to know what she's speaking? Like I can't even make out what my friend's saying when she's sitting just beside me during the boring classes. Maybe I should go and take lessons from Shiori. My friend's going to be so happy. oh my god?! That ending?? What was that? The bad guys were good and the good guys were bad? WHATT I was really thinking that this witch bitch was the real deal but i lover so much. ELIZABETH LIM WHAT ARE YOU DOING MESSING WITH MY HEAD. It truly transports you to another world and even with all the chaos and evil—I didn't want to leave.