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Lucie Dess is the marketing and events coordinator at Readings.

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For No Mortal Creature
by Keshe Chow

Reviewed by
Lucie Dess, Sep 2025

Jia Yi has always believed she’s an Empty, someone without magical power. While searching for a cure to her grandmother’s illness, Jia is stabbed through the heart by a soldier of her mortal enemy, Prince Essien Lancaster. She finds herself…

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