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This book was a pleasant surprise! - not because I expected it to be bad, but because so many pieces were new to me! I'd never read the author before, I've never seen the mythic subjects combined the way they are here, and the emphasis on Asian culture and mythology, but still with familiar/well-known elements... overall, it was a brilliantly constructed world, and I immediately wanted to dive into Book 2 once I'd finished this. Not a 5-star, because there were some structure and some pacing issues for me, but the story itself was well worth overlooking the shortcomings.
This book was a pleasant surprise! - not because I expected it to be bad, but because so many pieces were new to me! I'd never read the author before, I've never seen the mythic subjects combined the way they are here, and the emphasis on Asian culture and mythology, but still with familiar/well-known elements... overall, it was a brilliantly constructed world, and I immediately wanted to dive into Book 2 once I'd finished this. Not a 5-star, because there were some structure and some pacing issues for me, but the story itself was well worth overlooking the shortcomings.