It gave the thunder tiger a very real and human-like feel to it. One thing that surprised me about this book is that we actually got to read a chapter from the point of view of the thunder tiger! How AMAZING is that? I totally did not expect this. But once the action started, I got completely hooked! Sometimes Kristoff spent so long setting one scene or event that my mind would just start to wander or I’d lose sight of the context. The descriptions were often several pages long and a little confusing (riddled with Japanese words that I’d never heard before - see note above about the glossary!). I have to admit I have a bit of a hard time getting settled into Stormdancer. But it would have been super useful for me during reading, so be sure to take a look ( before you finish the book lol)!Īfter sucking us into the book with an epic fight scene, Stormdancer pulls back two weeks into the past and begins introducing us to the intricate world that the story is set in. I didn’t realize this until I got to the very end - haha.

NOTE: Apparently there is a glossary of words at the back of the book. Even though she can hear his thoughts, even though she saved his life, all she knows for certain is he'd rather see her dead than help her.īut together, the pair will form an indomitable friendship, and rise to challenge the might of an empire. Accompanying her father on the Sh?gun's hunt, she finds herself stranded: a young woman alone in Shima's last wilderness, with only a furious, crippled thunder tiger for company. Yukiko is a child of the Fox clan, possessed of a talent that if discovered, would see her executed by the Lotus Guild. But any fool knows the beasts have been extinct for more than a century, and the price of failing the Sh?gun is death. The hunters of Shima's imperial court are charged by their Sh?gun to capture a thunder tiger - a legendary creature, half-eagle, half-tiger. The skies are red as blood, the land is choked with toxic pollution, and the great spirit animals that once roamed its wilds have departed forever. The Shima Imperium verges on the brink of environmental collapse an island nation once rich in tradition and myth, now decimated by clockwork industrialization and the machine-worshipers of the Lotus Guild. Genre: Dystopian, Fantasy, Mythology, Steampunk

Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff