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Stormdancer
by Jay Kristoff
Also reviewed on my Youtube channel.
I think it's fair to say that this book was something of a surprise. I was expecting pure fantasy. Instead, I got steampunk. Set in an alternate version of Shogunate Japan. With an incredibly sassy, scene-stealing griffin. Uh, YES PLEASE.
It's not perfect, it's true. Kristoff's writing is veeeeeeeery heavy on description, and it took me a while to get used to it. It also took me a while to understand what the hell was going on, because we're thrown straight into this world where there's a mysterious plant that's destroying all the arable land in the entire country and as a result everyone's starving but SURPRISE they're willingly growing the plant because it provides the fuel for all their steampunk-y devices plus it's also highly addictive and causes crazy town hallucinations, so of COURSE they grow it.
Anyway.
Easily my favourite part of this is Buruu, the griffin/thundertiger/beastie. He's completely hilarious and as much as I loved Yukiko and her general badassery, it couldn't compare to an eyerolling griffin demanding that she stop flirting with a cute boy because it's the wooooooooorst.
So yeah. I'll definitely be tracking down the rest of the series. Sooner rather than later.
I think it's fair to say that this book was something of a surprise. I was expecting pure fantasy. Instead, I got steampunk. Set in an alternate version of Shogunate Japan. With an incredibly sassy, scene-stealing griffin. Uh, YES PLEASE.
It's not perfect, it's true. Kristoff's writing is veeeeeeeery heavy on description, and it took me a while to get used to it. It also took me a while to understand what the hell was going on, because we're thrown straight into this world where there's a mysterious plant that's destroying all the arable land in the entire country and as a result everyone's starving but SURPRISE they're willingly growing the plant because it provides the fuel for all their steampunk-y devices plus it's also highly addictive and causes crazy town hallucinations, so of COURSE they grow it.
Anyway.
Easily my favourite part of this is Buruu, the griffin/thundertiger/beastie. He's completely hilarious and as much as I loved Yukiko and her general badassery, it couldn't compare to an eyerolling griffin demanding that she stop flirting with a cute boy because it's the wooooooooorst.
So yeah. I'll definitely be tracking down the rest of the series. Sooner rather than later.