Hugo Award Winner - Best Novella: The Emperor's Soul (Paperback)

from MrsLee

This is the book I needed to jump-start my love of reading again. Very short, it is a small work of art focusing on a woman who is imprisoned for using her talents as a Forger. Her captors want her to pursue her forbidden craft for a "good" purpose, and they have promised her wealth and freedom i...

from khaddox

Say what you will about Brandon Sanderson, he is not afraid to write from a female perspective and he does it well. In this case, the protagonist is Shai, and she is a thief and a forger. In the world that Sanderson has created, a forger doesn't just recreate the surface appearance of a work of a...

from Narilka

Shai has been betrayed. Her partner left her high and dry while they attempted to steal and replace the Moon Scepter with a forgery. Now she finds herself locked in jail awaiting her fate. Instead of being executed Shai is offered an opportunity. The emperor has been attacked by assassins and whi...

from pwaites

It wasn't what I've come to expect from Brandon Sanderson - namely, it was short. It's a 175 page novella that takes under two hours to read. And it's wonderful. The premises of the story is that the emperor suffered a blow to the head and heavy brain damage. He's alive and perfectly healthy, exc...

from foggidawn

Shai is a forger: using a mixture of magic and art, she can make an expert copy of just about anything. When she is caught in the emperor's palace (on a heist involving a priceless painting and a royal treasure), she is imprisoned and expects to be executes. Instead, the emperor's closest adviser...