stormdancer lotus wars series book 1 jay kristoff

I decided to keep reading for three reasons: The first three chapters of this book put my hackles up, I was hugely aware that this was a white male author writing an Asian inspired fantasy world and, quite rightly, that didn’t sit comfortably to me. I suppose I should caveat this review with the fact that this book first published in 2012 and publishing has come on a long way in terms of promoting Own Voices works and condemning things that are more…culturally appropriative. In fact, if it wasn’t part of this reading challenge I might have been tempted to DNF. Ok, so…when I read chapters 1-3 I was close to not reading the rest of the book. Returning to the city, Yukiko is determined to make the Shõgun pay – but what can one girl and a flightless arashitora do against the might of an empire?įind on Goodreads | Amazon (Affiliate) Chapter One – Eight

She learns the horrifying extent of the Shõgun’s crimes, both against her country and her family. Authority has always made Yukiko, but her world changes when she meets Kin, a young man with secrets, and the rebel Kagé cabal. A toxic fuel is choking the land, the machine-powered Lotus Guild is publicly burning those they deem Impure, and the Shõgun cares for nothing but his own dominion. Meanwhile, the country around them verges on collapse.

Yet trapped together in the forest, Yukiko and the beast soon discover a bond that neither of them expected. Although she can hear his thoughts, and saved his life, all she knows for certain is he’d rather see her dead than help her. Soon Yukiko finds herself stranded: a young woman alone in her country’s last wilderness, with only a furious, crippled arashitora for company. But the mission proves less impossible and more deadly than anyone expects. So when Yukiko and her warrior father Masaru are sent to capture one for the Shõgun, they fear that their lives are over – everyone knows what happens to those who fail the Lord of the Shima Isles. But the first one was on offer and I thought why not give it a go?Īrashitoras are supposed to be extinct.

Many of you will know I adore Jay Kristoff’s Nevernight series – to the point where I now have three copies of Darkdawn preordered…but I hadn’t ever really thought to read his The Lorus Wars series – mainly because no one talks about them. Hello Humans! It is book three of my #ABookADay reading challenge and, by pure chance, it’s another one of my many impulse Kindle purchases.

Stormdancer lotus wars series book 1 jay kristoff