For No Mortal Creature
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- 8,49 €
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- 8,49 €
Publisher Description
In this romantic, gothic fantasy inspired by Wuthering Heights, a teen girl with the power to move between life and death must journey into the afterlife. But to survive, she’ll need the help of her two sworn enemies—both dangerously captivating, both hiding secrets that could destroy her.
When Jia Yi finds herself alive again after being killed by an enemy’s sword, she realizes she possesses a rare power: the ability to move between life and death. With her new gift comes the discovery of a mysterious spirit realm teeming with ghosts like herself—and Lin, the boy she once loved before his betrayal tore them apart.
At first Jia wants nothing to do with any ghosts, metaphorical or otherwise. But when her beloved grandmother dies under suspicious circumstances, Jia is forced to follow in an attempt to save her.
In the death realm, though, even ghosts have ghosts. The afterlife is more complex than Jia ever could have imagined—and no one knows what lies at its end. To survive, Jia must rely on both Lin and her longtime enemy, the cold and enigmatic Prince Essien. The problem? She can’t trust either of them.
Jia is prepared to risk her soul if it means rescuing her grandmother—but what if in the process, she loses her heart, too?
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A 17-year-old combs the afterlife for a powerful weapon in this clever but convoluted Wuthering Heights riff from Chow (The Girl with No Reflection). While gathering herbs to heal her ailing grandmother, Jia strays too close to the land border separating her country, Jinghu Dao, from neighboring nation Yske, and is killed by an enemy soldier. Thankfully, Jia possesses the ability to self-resurrect—a fact she and handsome Yskian prince Essien both learn when she reanimates for the first time while inside his castle. Essien lets Jia leave after she promises to revisit the underworld and retrieve for him a fabled sword that can purportedly conquer death. Following losing her grandmother, however, Jia secretly hatches a new plan to find and use the sword to resurrect the old woman. But navigating the demon-infested death realm requires help from a resident ghost—namely that of Jia's best friend and first love, Lin, who betrayed Jia before dying in a drunken brawl. Intersectionally diverse characters are slimly developed, and the jam-packed plot's ample twists result in a read that's often confusing. Nevertheless, rich and inventive worldbuilding inspired by Chinese folklore and mythology, conveyed via darkly funny first-person narration, make for an entertaining horror-tinged romantasy. Ages 14–up.
