Excellent book! Highly recommend this book to genre fans and those looking to expand their reading circle. Purchasing for library!

Promising plot, mediocre execution.

Mongolia, in the second half of the 15th century, descendants of Genghis Khan fight each other for the leading role of Great Khan, to keep the empire together. Interesting time period, exotic venue, political games - everything is there for an exciting historical fiction. Yet, it took me ages to get through this book, and I keep wondering why.

Both the story and the characters have great potential but none of them are worked out properly. The storytelling is slow paced and often repetitive, events are mostly predictable.

I thank NetGalley and Pangea Books for this Advance Reading Copy.

*Trigger Warnings*
Sexual Slavery, Abuse, Rape, Miscarriage, Murder

Genghis Khan united a nation and created a vast empire for his heirs. But after 200 years of civil war, his empire has fallen into the dark ages.

Mandukhai dreams of being a fierce warrior woman, but her dreams are shattered when she is forced to become the second wife to the Great Khan. Unebolod spent his life in the Great Khan's shadow, preparing for a day when he can seize control of the empire. But when he forms a dangerous alliance with Mandukhai, it swiftly transforms into a passion that could destroy them both.

An amazing epic Mongolian tale steeped in history, I absolutely adored this book. The characters are fascinating and the intriguing politics and different alliances are so well thought out and portrayed. The writing is excellent and the integration of real historical fact beautifully done. I love Mandukhai, she is caring whilst being powerful even when she should not have power she establishes herself. She is the perfect embodiment of a female warrior her feminine side does not undermine her power at any time and I can't wait to see how her characters progress in the series. The other characters unfortunately were not as interesting as Mandukhai, however I am interested in how they will progress over the series, especially Yeke as she starts to make new alliances.

Over all I cant wait to read the next book in the series and see where the story will go!

An amazing look into a forgotten chapter of Mongol history! Mandukhai has won my heart and I can’t wait to read more about her and see how she becomes the warrior queen of the Mongol nation. Please hurry with the next book, I want more.

I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This book had a really interesting premise, being a fantastical account of actual Mongolian history, but suffered from multiple issues with the writing, including "telling" instead of "showing" and info dumps. Probably could've used another few rounds of editing.

"Daughter of the Yellow Dragon" has interesting characters and a good plot, but it doesn't really manage to become a good story overall.

There is a lot of telling the reader how great, smart, strong the characters are without really proving it through their actions. The plot has a lot of potential but none of the conflicts and characters are really developed well enough to carry the story.

The final five to ten percent of the novel actually managed to drag the book down for me, just because they didn't really fit in with the rest of the novel.

I'm not actually sure whether I want to continue with this series.