The novel is about her coming to terms with this identity, and the way it affects her close sister-like relationship with Zhen Ni. Skybright discovers early on in the book that she is not fully human she is actually part serpent demon. Serpentine is about a young woman named Skybright, who is the handmaid to a young woman named Zhen Ni. Serpentine is set in Cindy’s fictitious Kingdom of Xia, which is inspired by ancient China it was the setting of her first two novels, Silver Phoenix and Fury of the Phoenix. This is not an unbiased review of their novels - it’s not a review at all! It’s an account of why I love these books, and why I think you might love them too. If you follow me on the internet you probably know that I am friends with both of these authors, and Cindy and I co-run Diversity in YA together. They are Serpentine by Cindy Pon and Court of Fives by Kate Elliott. They are completely different in tone and style, but I think they actually pair very well together because they’re both about complex young women in non-Western cultures acting to support and save their female friends and family members. I have two wonderful new YA fantasy novels to tell you about today.
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