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She Who Became the Sun

She Who Became the Sun

Shelley Parker-Chan

Eerste uitgave 2021Oorspronkelijke taal EN

7,77,7 / 10
Score van 10381 beoordelingenBetrouwbaarheid 67%: zoveel van de score is van de lezers zelf
282
Pagina’s
ongeveer 5 u
Leestijd
Deel van een reeksThe Radiant EmperorDeel 1 van 2
Ranglijst van de reeks
  • Sydney J. Bounds Award For Best Newcomer
  • Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
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Over het boek

She Who Became the Sun is a 2021 historical fantasy novel by Shelley Parker-Chan. Parker-Chan's debut novel, the work is a re-imagining of the rise to power of the Hongwu Emperor in the 14th century. A sequel, He Who Drowned the World, was published in 2023; the two books form The Radiant Emperor Duology.

Leesvolgorde · The Radiant Emperor

  1. She Who Became the Sun
    She Who Became the Sun2021 · 381 beoordelingenDit boek
    7,77,7 / 10
  2. He Who Drowned the World
    He Who Drowned the World2023 · 83 beoordelingen
    8,28,2 / 10

Waar de score vandaan komt

De bronnen komen gemiddeld uit op 7,5 over 381 beoordelingen — nog niet veel, dus de stem van de lezers weegt voor 67% mee en de rest trekt richting het Ranglijsten-gemiddelde van 7,8. Zo komt 7,7 tot stand.

BronGemiddeldeBeoordelingenGewicht
Open Library8,45 1%
Hardcover7,5376 99%

Stemmen van lezers

De populairste recensies op Hardcover (met naamsvermelding van de auteurs).

  • “The Mongolians are written in this book in a way that feels like it's consistent with the Wuxia novels that inspired the author, but also in ways that feels like they are ignoring internalized prejudices from those novels - the writers of those works had their own biases, possibly unexamined, about Mongolians as a people, or at least the history of those people, that put them into some of the same archetypes that white fantasy and science fiction writers are (justifiably) criticized for using when writing “Proud Warrior Race” characters and cultures. It feels like the the author is reproducin…”

    ★ 3/5CountZero op Hardcover

  • “the first three chapters were really interesting but honestly i was bored the rest of the time”

    ★ 2/5booksgamesvinyl op Hardcover

  • “Didn't really do much for me. Zhu was incredibly boring to me. I wish she had more interests outside of “become great.” Ouyang was so interesting and I would have preferred his story to take more precedence. No clue if I'll be reading the sequel. I really loved the Author's prose and some of the Gender Things, but I'm not sure if I want to invest the time into reading. We will seeee”

    ★ 2/5melody op Hardcover

Veelgestelde vragen

Hoe wordt She Who Became the Sun beoordeeld?

7,7 van 10, op basis van 381 lezersbeoordelingen uit 2 onafhankelijke bronnen.

Is She Who Became the Sun de moeite waard?

Lezers geven 7,7/10 op basis van 381 beoordelingen in open bronnen.

Hoe lang doe je over “She Who Became the Sun”?

Ongeveer 5 uur in een gemiddeld tempo — 282 bladzijden.

Het hoeveelste deel van de reeks is She Who Became the Sun?

Deel 1 van 2 van The Radiant Emperor. De volledige leesvolgorde staat bovenaan bij de titel.