john_bridges 's review for:

Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger

4.0

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An anime influenced fantasy set in a thinly disguised Asian world (complete with analogues for Japan, China, Korea, The Philippines and India) with compelling characters and an involving story. It's a bit like the Legend of Korra meets Pokemon, and has the makings of a dynamic anime series of its own (paging Netflix). The magical talents of shadepacting and metalpacting, as well as the more esoteric Dahali arts, are pretty cool additions to the canon of fantasy magic, and I'd like to see them developed further in a followup tale.