After Ying finds her father dying in his ransacked workshop, she disguises herself as a boy and sets out to join the Engineer's Guild in an attempt to unearth the secrets that cost her father his life.
Of Jade and Dragons by Amber Chen crafts a soaring and imaginative steampunk fantasy filled with airships, mechanical beasts, and deception.
First of all, I adored Ying so much as a main character! As a girlie who grew up playing with Legos and loving Violet Baudelaire, it's really refreshing to have an inventor-type protagonist who uses her wits to solve problems instead of a sword.
Overall, Chen made a unique, genre-bending fantasy here that, instead of pitting magic and science against one another (like To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods *cough cough*), creates an inventive alchemical fusion of the two.
Thank you, NetGalley and Viking Books for Young Readers, for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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