The first half of the book is seeped in fantastic world building. Shima Imperium is a kingdom inspired by feudal Japan. It is a unique society woven from Japanese culture and history along with the author's imagination of steampunk machinery. Unfortunately, it took a lot of patience and setting the book aside, forgetting about it and then picking it up to actually find the compelling aspects of the story. It had everything that I was looking for in a great read: a fantastic world, a wholly original story, and a strong female protagonist who I could root for throughout the book. Review: I really wanted to love Stormdancer. 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. For me, Stormdancer falls somewhere in the middle of those polar opposites.ĭescription (from the publisher): A DYING LAND The reaction from readers has been all over the spectrum from the worst book to the favorite book read in 2012. Stormdancer, the first book in the Lotus War series and Jay Kristoff's debut novel, has garnered many starred reviews from review journals.
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