Book Review: Empire of Shadows

I love the cover. That’s the only positive thing that I can think of about Empire of Shadows.  Although it’s already the second book of the Bhinian Empire Series, it’s actually a prequel of book 1, A City of A Thousand Dolls.  It tells the story of Mara and Emil Arvi, the deceased parents of our protagonist in book 1, Nisha Arvi.  While I don’t have any issues with that, I still can’t understand why it was necessary for this book to exist other than vex the readers maybe or milk the cow some more. Book 1 was already crystal…