Across the Nightingale Floor : Tales of the Otori Book One (CD-Audio)

from TadAD

I so wanted to like this series a lot after reading this book. Unfortunately, all I can say is that it's OK. And then, I can only say that as far as Book 3, as I haven't gone on with it. This wasn't a bad start to the series. I enjoyed the feudal-Japan-in-all-but-name setting; I found the charact...

from fyrefly98

Summary: Tomasu never thought he was anything more than boy living with his mother and stepfather in a small mountain village. When a fierce warlord on a campaign of religious persecution attacks Tomasu's village and kills everyone in it, he barely escapes with his life. He is found and protected...

from bkoopman

Set in a remarkably envisioned feudal Japan, it would be easy to mistake this book for historic fiction. Across the Nightingale Floor has opened my eyes to a new subgenre: historical fantasy. Nightingale fits this subgenre only in its superb rendering of a place in time. Takeo is the hero, orphan...

from Cygnus555

I love a good Fantasy story that isn't too over the top. I put "Name of the Wind" by Rothfuss and the Dragonlance Trilogy in this grouping. I now add "Across the Nightingale Floor". I found this book by chance in Moab, Utah. This little independent bookstore "Back of Beyond Books" had a whole set...

from Smiler69

In Book 1 of the Tales of the Otori series, set in a fictitious feudal Japan, 16-year-old Tomasu has just discovered that all the occupants of his village have been massacred by the men of Iida Sadamu, lord of the Tohan, in a campaign to persecute Tomasu's people, a religious minority known as "T...