THE SPIRIT OF A RISING SUN

Awards & Accolades Likes 133 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller by SenLinYu ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 23, 2025 Although the melodrama sometimes is a bit much, the superb worldbuilding and intricate plotline make this a must-read. Awards & Accolades Likes 133 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller Using mystery and romance elements in a nonlinear narrative, SenLinYu’s debut is a doorstopper of a fantasy that follows a woman with missing memories as she navigates through a war-torn realm in search of herself. Helena Marino is a talented young healer living in Paladia—the “Shining City”—who has been thrust into a brutal war against an all-powerful necromancer and his army of Undying, loyal henchmen with immortal bodies, and necrothralls, reanimated automatons. When Helena is awakened from stasis, a prisoner of the necromancer’s forces, she has no idea how long she has been incarcerated—or the status of the war. She soon finds herself a personal prisoner of Kaine Ferron, the High Necromancer’s “monster” psychopath who has sadistically killed hundreds for his master. Ordered to recover Helena’s buried memories by any means necessary, the two polar opposites—Helena an...