Auf ein Miniaturbild klicken, um zu Google Books zu gelangen.
Lädt ... Kinslayer (The Lotus War Trilogy) (2013. Auflage)von Jay Kristoff
Werk-InformationenKinslayer: The Lotus War Book Two von Jay Kristoff
Books Read in 2015 (364) Lädt ...
Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. More quality steampunk by Jay Kristoff: Kinslayer leads off with a recap of the important characters, what they did, and what happened to them in book one, Stormdancer. While Stormdancer was primarily about the building of Yukiko and Buruu’s bond, Kinslayer focused more on the civil war that threatens the cesspit city of Shima. A politically inspired wedding is set to take place very soon, cementing another madman in a position of power, who loathes Yukiko and her thundertiger, Buruu. The Kage rebellion is in full swing, led by Daichi and supported by Guildsman artificer turncoat, Kin, who is not trusted by most but deeply involved with Yukiko. New characters abound, especially since Yukiko and Buruu are sidetracked for most of the book. Lowborn Hana, whose job it is to empty the waste generated by the palace residents (nicknamed Shit Girl), uses her “invisible” status to spy for the Kage, trying to rescue the sister of the slain Shogun and last in the family line. Her greedy brother and their kenning connection with an mangled alleycat is great. And some old characters return to align themselves with Hana, including maidservant, Michi a strong, determined, and dangerous character. Kristoff puts the reader right into the action, where you can smell the city’s putrid scents, see their corpse-rats, and dodge the bullets, bombs and fires when all hell breaks loose. ( ) Simultaneously better and worse than the previous book. The 'hai' 'san' and 'sama' being thrown around like confetti in the previous book are blessedly reduced, if not eliminated, in this one, and the dialogue is soooo much better for it. There's still some bizarre word choices and substitutions, clearly made to make the book feel more 'Japan' - the most egregious being grinning like "a kitsune in a henhouse.' This isn't even a pastiche of Japanese language, culture, or art - this is just someone using the replace function in Word and feeling clever. Its lazy. The action is well-written. I don't mind violence or gore in a novel, but it did seem excessive. It represented a huge change in tone that felt less like a natural progression of the story or world and more like someone trying to ape on Empire Strikes Back. There's some great imagery there, particularly with how women are treated in the guild. Do I need a visceral description of a cat being slaughtered? No, I do not. It didn't add anything to the scene to describe how its skull crunched and guts splayed, and its the laziest fucking way to elicit a reaction from the reader. A few more female characters get POV-time in this. I appreciated having a broader cast, with different roles and perspectives regarding the rebellion. I liked how they had kick-ass abilities, although Yukiko is in very little of the plot of this book. She spends the first 25-33% of the book drunk and suffering from So let's talk about Let's go back to the previous paragraph. Yukiko spent the first trimester of her pregnancy pissed drunk, in pollution, experiencing such wonderful events as food deprivation, drowning, having the shit beat out of her (including having her stomach kicked and beaten), hypothermia....the list goes on. During the most formulative time of development for a fetus. If Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. I really loved the first of Jay Kristoff's books in the Lotus War series, Stormdancer. I read it before I'd spent much time learning about cultural appropriation and now I am somewhat ashamed of the fact that I liked it so much. Therefore, I couldn't in good conscious read Kingslayer. I'm disappointed that I didn't really appreciate that problems within the first book nor understand the impact of cultural appropriation. But over the the years I've come to understand it and now I seek out works about people of color by people of color (both fiction and non). For more about Jay Kristoff and cultural appropriation in Stormdancer, please read this excellent essay: https://thebookwurrm.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/on-cultural-appropriation-an-essay... Second book in the series, Japanese steampunk, multiple characters deal with multiple issues and take the story on another step, it's complicated and involved and honestly the only characters I really cared for were Hana and Daken. It's not a bad book it's just a bridging book that is introducing multiple characters who will be important later but right now are just clutter for me. Some stories were resolved but others will complicate things for the last book. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Gehört zur ReiheDer Lotuskrieg (2) Ist enthalten in
"The mad Sho?gun Yoritomo has been assassinated by the Stormdancer Yukiko, and the threat of civil war looms over the Shima Imperium. The toxic blood lotus flower continues to ravage the land, the deadlands splitting wider by the day. The machine-worshippers of the Lotus Guild conspire to renew the nation's broken dynasty and crush the growing rebellion simultaneously--by endorsing a new Sho?gun who desires nothing more than to see Yukiko dead"--Dust jacket flap. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers-AutorJay Kristoffs Buch Kinslayer wurde im Frührezensenten-Programm LibraryThing Early Reviewers angeboten. Aktuelle DiskussionenKeineBeliebte Umschlagbilder
Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.92Literature English English fiction Modern Period 2000-Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
Bist das du?Werde ein LibraryThing-Autor. |