Stormdancer : The Lotus War Book One

from sunset_x_cocktail

My brain is suffering from an overload of holy crap this book was awesome right now. I very nearly gave up on this book quite early on. The first hundred pages or so were extremely boring. Almost nothing was happening. It was pretty much introducing characters and setting the scene. Granted thoug...

from DabOfDarkness

The world is polluted and it is only getting worse. The Shogun Yoritomo rules with an iron fist, taking whatever pleases him. The Lotus Guild holds sway via their knowledge of mechanics and running the empire's many machines. The black lotus pollutes land and people alike, choking out the wild pl...

from TheYodamom

4.5 At first I was overwhelmed with the world building the foreign terms, it was a bit daunting. Yes, there is a dictionary at the end but I did not know this and muddled through just fine. After about page 70 the story fired it's rockets and there was no looking back. Action, adventure, and intr...

from mbklibrary

I completely lost myself inside this steampunk samurai world. I loved Yukiko and thought she showed the perfect amount of vulnerability, naïveté, and fierceness. She is a fantastic female protagonist. The setting is bleak, in a realm called Shima, which seems based on feudal Japan, which is domin...

from SadieSForsythe

This is probably a must-read for all Anime and Manga fans out there. You'll definitely recognize the feel of it. Not to mention it'd be really helpful to already understand what a yokai and oni are, as well as any number of other recognizable Japanese words (clothing items, ranks, weaponry, etc)....