A review by octavia_cade
Dragon Sword and Wind Child by Cathy Hirano, Noriko Ogiwara, Miho Satake

4.0

Well-written and really enjoyable fantasy, based very loosely on the Japanese myth of Izanagi, Izanami, and family. My knowledge of Japanese mythology is minimal at best, so a lot of this was new to me, but it was sad and hopeful and lovely all at once. It's nice to have fantasy protagonists who are distinctly averse to battle, and the war parts of this story (thankfully minimal) didn't quite match up to the rest of it - in many ways Dragon Sword is a very quiet story, one that values reconciliation and forgiveness above everything else, and which doesn't flinch from the idea of costs in conflict, how high they are and how terrible it is to have to pay them.