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In fact, I specifically timed it so I would be reading it around this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival. I’ve always loved the legend of Chang’e, and Mid-Autumn Festival is one of my favorite celebrations, so you can only imagine how excited I was to receive an ARC of Daughter of the Moon Goddess. Content Warnings: Death, gore, violence, blood, fire, confinement, torture, kidnapping, grief, sexual harrassment.

Source: Digital ARC received via Netgalley.

When treachery looms and forbidden magic threatens the kingdom, however, she must challenge the ruthless Celestial Emperor for her dream-striking a dangerous bargain in which she is torn between losing all she loves or plunging the realm into chaos. To save her mother, Xingyin embarks on a perilous quest, confronting legendary creatures and vicious enemies across the earth and skies. Disguising her identity, she seizes an opportunity to learn alongside the Crown Prince, mastering archery and magic, even as passion flames between her and the emperor’s son. But when Xingyin’s magic flares and her existence is discovered, she is forced to flee her home, leaving her mother behind.Īlone, untrained, and afraid, she makes her way to the Celestial Kingdom, a land of wonder and secrets.

Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the powerful Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality. A fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess, Chang’e, in which a young woman’s quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm and sets her on a dangerous path-where choices come with deadly consequences, and she risks losing more than her heart.