Available Formats
The Last Bloodcarver
By (Author) Vanessa Le
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Oneworld Publications
Rock the Boat
27th February 2024
21st March 2024
United Kingdom
Young Adult
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Magical realism / Magical fantasy
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Science fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Dark fantasy
Paperback
384
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 28mm
When Nhika is caught using her bloodcarving abilities during a sham medical appointment, she's captured by underground thugs and sold to an aristocratic family to heal the last witness of their fathers murder. But as Nhika delves deeper into their investigation amidst the glitz of Theumas wealthiest district, she begins to notice parallels between this job and her own dark past. And when she meets an alluring yet entitled physician's aide, Ven Kochin, shes forced to question the true intent behind this murder. In a society that outcasts her, Kochin seems drawn to her...though he takes every chance he gets to push her out of his opulent world. When Nhika discovers that Kochin is not who he claims to be, and that there is an evil dwelling in Theumas that runs much deeper than the murder of one man, she must decide where her heart, and her allegiance, truly lie. And - if she's willing to become the dreaded bloodcarver Theumas fears to save herself and the ones she's vowed to protect.
Vanessa Le is a Vietnamese American author from the Pacific Northwest. She recently graduated from Brown University with a concentration in Health and Human Biology. She loves reading and writing stories about the Asian diasporic experience and high-concept magic systems. You can also find her gaming too much, drawing too little, or appeasing her two shiba inus.