#speaking bones

In a nutshell, it's basically about two best friends who get involved in a rebellion to overthrow a tyrant... and then what happens afterwards! Seriously, the blurb for the first book doesn't even try to hide what the real story is:

Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, silk-draped airships, and shapeshifting gods. Once the emperor has been overthrown, however, they each find themselves the leader of separate factions—two sides with very different ideas about how the world should be run and the meaning of justice.

Highly recommend it, especially if you're a fan of books like the ASoIaF series. And much like ASoIaF, it's also based on a real event, specifically the Chu-Han Contention. And as is the case with alot of epic fantasy, it's also pretty brutal, with just the first book including things like cannibalism, genocide, and suicide, and the second book has a character forcing themselves on another, so please keep that in mind if you plan to read.

My favorite character is definitely Jia—not necessarily because of her as a person, but because of her as a character. But really, they're all good in their own ways, or at least I thought so. Even if you end up hating a character for taking a certain action, you at least get to see how they came to develop this mindset (looking at you especially, Jia) and I love that!