This is yet another book that I saw reviewed on Youtube by a Booktuber, though a different one than for The Poppy War and The Rage of Dragons. The review was very positive praising the writing and the characters of this Japenese folklore inspired fantasy. Being very intrigued by the review I went on the Kindle site and brought up the book, read the synopsis and a fair number of the reviews and decided to buy it, mainly because it was based on Japanese folklore, something I had not read anything about previously.
Set in a world based on feudal Japan, with a whole host of demons, ghosts and mythical creatures as well as samurai and ronin, with characters that are so well written that you just can not help feel for them as their various fates unfold, this series is an engrossing read from start to heart-wrenching finish.
A single wish will spark a new dawn.
Every millennium the missing pieces of the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers are hunted, for they hold the power to call the great Kami Dragon from the sea and ask for any one wish.
As a temple burns to the ground Yumeko escapes with its greatest treasure – the first piece of the scroll. And when fate thrusts her into the path of a mysterious samurai she knows he seeks what she has. Kage is under order to kill those who stand in his way but will he be able to complete his mission? Will this be the dawn that sees the dragon wake?
Enter a beautiful and perilous land of shapeshifters and samurai, kami and legends, humans and demons…a world in which Japanese mythology and imagination blend together.
Format
Kindle EditionDate Acquired
2nd April 2020Retail Cost
£7.99Number of Pages
384Year Read
2020THE TIME OF THE WISH APPROACHES…
Yumeko the shapeshifter had one task: take her piece of the ancient and powerful scroll to the Steel Feather temple and prevent the summoning of the great Kami Dragon. But she has a new enemy now. The demon Hakaimono has escaped and possessed the samurai she thought would protect her, Kage Tatsumi of the Shadow Clan.
Hakaimono has done the unthinkable and joined forces with Genno, the Master of Demons, to break his curse and set himself free. But Genno wishes to overthrow the empire and cover the land in darkness. To do that he needs only one thing, the scroll Yumeko is hiding. As the paths of Yumeko and the possessed Tatsumi cross again the entire empire will be thrown into chaos.
AND CHAOS WILL DARKEN AN EMPIRE.
Format
Kindle EditionDate Acquired
15th July 2020Retail Cost
£7.99Number of Pages
433Year Read
2021All is lost.
Kitsune shapeshifter Yumeko has given up the final piece of the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers, in order to save everyone she loves from imminent death. Now she and her ragtag band of companions must journey to the wild sea cliffs of Iwagoto in a desperate last-chance effort to stop the Master of Demons from calling upon the Great Kami dragon and making the wish that will plunge the empire into destruction and darkness.
But even with their combined skills and powers, this most unlikely team of heroes knows the forces of Evil may be impossible to overcome. And there is another player in the battle for the scroll, a player who has been watching, waiting for the right moment to pull strings that no one even realized existed…until now.
Format
Kindle EditionDate Acquired
15th July 2020Retail Cost
£7.99Number of Pages
369Year Read
2021