![]() ![]() ![]() Shiori is the kind of female hero that commands attention, even though through most of Six Crimson Cranes she's not permitted to speak a word aloud. There's some mild romance and talk of kissing, and adults drink some plum wine. A person close to Shiori dies, and there's much talk of the loss of her mother when she was young. Someone's nearly burned at the stake, another takes an arrow to the neck, a soldier is run through with a sword, and another soldier is poisoned. She's surrounded by some violence and death. While under her curse she's regularly harassed and hit, gets pierced with needles, attacked by wolves, and thrown in jail. The main character is a cursed princess named Shiori who will sacrifice anything to save her brothers. Parents need to know that Six Crimson Cranes, by Elizabeth Lim ( The Blood of Stars duology), is a compelling fantasy based on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Cranes" with elements of Chinese and Japanese folklore and myths mixed in. ![]()
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