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puzumaki 's review for:
Stormdancer
by Jay Kristoff
The very different settings of the mechanized industrial cities (and the struggle between industry/religion and imperial rule), outlying struggling urban towns (currently a hot topic in the U.S.), and wilderness layered with Japanese folklore (yokai) and styles (hair, clothes, social traditions) paint a wonderfully unique story albeit somewhat flat from an obvious villain perspective.
I like stories where good and evil is a little more nuanced, and perhaps each character's stories are described more in future books, but that said it's nice to occasionally have a story with the standard tropes (and with how unique so many other aspects of the story is, it might be good to at least start with the standards).
From an editor POV, one minor annoyance is the author would get hooked on an adjective for a few pages, using it too many times too close together. Perhaps not many people notice those things.
It has themes of man(industry) vs. nature, power (who really has it), and crosses many genres but is best summed up as Japanese steampunk with mythical and romantic elements.
I like stories where good and evil is a little more nuanced, and perhaps each character's stories are described more in future books, but that said it's nice to occasionally have a story with the standard tropes (and with how unique so many other aspects of the story is, it might be good to at least start with the standards).
From an editor POV, one minor annoyance is the author would get hooked on an adjective for a few pages, using it too many times too close together. Perhaps not many people notice those things.
It has themes of man(industry) vs. nature, power (who really has it), and crosses many genres but is best summed up as Japanese steampunk with mythical and romantic elements.