Name: Apiecalypse Jen's review of The Art of Destiny by Wesley Chu
Item: The Art of Destiny
Rating: 5
Author: Apiecalypse Jen

Wesley Chu

A hero once believed to be the chosen one must find a new path with the help of a band of unlikely allies in the sequel to The Art of Prophecy, an epic fantasy ode to martial arts and magic from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Wesley Chu. Once there was a prophecy that a chosen one would rise to defeat the Eternal Khan, an immortal god-king. But the prophecy was wrong. Now Jian, the former chosen hero, is just an ordinary young man trying to find his own way. But he may yet have an extraordinary destiny, because he joins forces with Taishi, his grumpy grandmaster, who instructs him in the ways of her family’s powerful war art. Jian still has a long way to go before he can become her heir, so she recruits a band of elderly grandmasters who come out of retirement to whip him into shape and help with this one last job. And there are others who are also seeking their own destiny, like Qisami, an assassin on a secret mission to protect a powerful noblewoman from her enemies. But as Qisami goes undercover to complete her mission, she takes on a new identity that gives her something she never had before: friendship, found family, and new purpose. Sali also thought her fate was laid before her. She was supposed to be looking for the next Eternal Khan and now finds her clan exiled from everything she’s ever known. As she leads the survivors in search of a new home, Sali discovers that she’s something she never thought she could be: a leader and a revolutionary. Because sometimes destiny is grander than any prophecy can foresee. And the greatest destiny of all is the one you choose for yourself.

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The Art of Destiny

Apiecalypse Jen

Book two and it was everything I wanted it to be. 

I still love a book that features older characters and this does that. It still has a very strong focus on women who are older than 30-40y written as complete, complex, interesting people with fleshed out stories and whole ass lives and that's so rare in fantasy that I would like to request that you hook it straight into my god damn veins. If I could eat this book as a meal I would. I actually went back  ans re read the first book when I got this so I could just jump right into it without missing a beat and I am glad I did because it had been a year and I didn't want to lose any nuance and that was the way to go. We get a lot of backstory in this book, and we also learn more about the magic systems, prophecy, and get a really nicely expanded world build. No second book syndrome. New characters are great. Old ones expand. 5 gold stars. and now, I wait with tented fingers for the third one with all the confidence in the world that it will blow the doors off. 

Book two and it was everything I wanted it to be. 
I still love a book that features older characters and this does that. It still has a very strong focus on women who are older than 30-40y written as complete, complex, interesting people with fleshed out stories and whole ass lives and that's so rare in fantasy that I would like to request that you hook it straight into my god damn veins. If I could eat this book as a meal I would. I actually went back  ans re read the first book when I got this so I could just jump right into it without missing a beat and I am glad I did because it had been a year and I didn't want to lose any nuance and that was the way to go. We get a lot of backstory in this book, and we also learn more about the magic systems, prophecy, and get a really nicely expanded world build. No second book syndrome. New characters are great. Old ones expand. 5 gold stars. and now, I wait with tented fingers for the third one with all the confidence in the world that it will blow the doors off. 

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