Proud, funny, vicious, blood-thirsty and beautiful.
Obviously the scene stealer of this novel is Buruu. Daughter of the Hunt Master, subject of the terrifying and cruel Shogun, impure yokai-kin sent on an impossible mission to find the mythical griffin and capture it for the Shogun. Imagined as a Japan with Steampunk technology and alternate history, choking the life out of itself by growing and harvesting the Blood Lotus – which fuels all their mechanical marvels.
Stormdancer is a world one step removed from our own. Stormdancer is a fantasy nerdgasm, written by a fantasy nerd, for the fantasy nerds – and if it sounds like I just pilfered some of the Gettysburg address then that’s because Abraham Lincoln riding a grizzly bear was just about the only damn thing missing from this book. I need to take a moment to do something before beginning this review. Even though she can hear his thoughts, even though she saved his life, all she knows for certain is he’d rather see her dead than help her.īut together, the pair will form an indomitable friendship, and rise to challenge the might of an empire. Accompanying her father on the Shōgun’s hunt, she finds herself stranded: a young woman alone in Shima’s last wilderness, with only a furious, crippled thunder tiger for company. Yukiko is a child of the Fox clan, possessed of a talent that if discovered, would see her executed by the Lotus Guild. But any fool knows the beasts have been extinct for more than a century, and the price of failing the Shōgun is death. The hunters of Shima’s imperial court are charged by their Shōgun to capture a thunder tiger – a legendary creature, half-eagle, half-tiger. The skies are red as blood, the land is choked with toxic pollution, and the great spirit animals that once roamed its wilds have departed forever. The Shima Imperium verges on the brink of environmental collapse an island nation once rich in tradition and myth, now decimated by clockwork industrialization and the machine-worshipers of the Lotus Guild. Genres: High Fantasy, Steampunk, Young Adult Published by Thomas Dunne Books on September 18th 2012 This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from Author in exchange for an honest review. 6 August, 2012 Kat Kennedy Reviews 11 comments
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