Six Crimson Cranes Series

by Elizabeth Lim

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Based on the Grimm brothers' The Six Swans fairytale, this amazing series will captivate you with its arranged marriage trope and dragons, curses and...quests! A princess in exile. Six enchanted cranes. An unspeakable curse. This is a beautiful and immersive YA fantasy, set in an East-Asian inspired world, by Elizabeth Lim, the author of Spin the Dawn.

Shiori'anma is a princess. A promised princess to a man she could not want to marry any less. And she has a secret, which, on the day of her wedding, escapes her and reveals to her everyone that she is MAGICAL. While she frees herself from the marriage she never wanted, she also gains an enemy. Her very own stepmother...

Shiori is soon banished, left to live the life of a beggar on the streets. And her powers are to remain a secret, for if a word of her gift escapes her, her stepmother's curse will kill her brothers, who have been conveniently transformed into cranes.

Her only hope is to seize her kingdom back and defeat her evil stepmother. But her journey won't end here. A deathbed promise will leave her with a dragon's pearl. Her adventures will have her trusting paper birds and unexpected characters, embracing her own magic, travelling through a kingdom of dragons and even meeting a star-crossed lover...

Each page of this series is full of fairytale magic, quests and curses. You will fall in love with each and every character and root for them from start to finish, as they explore the enchanting East-Asian inspired fantastical world that the author builds.

If you loved this book and are looking for more, you may want to read our blog post on The Best YA Fantasy Books or take a look at series like Six of Crows, Legacy of Orisha, Red Queen or, by the same author, Her Radiant Curse.

Fly through the pages of this enchanted world, and join Shiori on the quest of a lifetime.

All the Six Crimson Cranes books in order:
Book 1: Six Crimson Cranes (2021)
Book 2: The Dragon's Promise (2022)

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