Sensational!
by Julie Kagawa and J.T. Nicholas
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Enter the world of the Legend of the Five Rings. A society based on that of Ancient Japan, that is divided into clans where the jousting for supreme positions within the empire is murderous and compelling. Where champion ronins abide. Where the Emperor is the empire, supported by the clans who are held together in uneasy truces that will only take a spark to ignite. Then there’s the challenge beyond the empire that’s streaming forth from the Shadowlands being held at bay by the Crab clan. For L5r world “Winter is coming” as the undead, goblins, orca and demons burst forth. The dead are constantly reanimated, chilling the living.
The Crab clan champion’s son, Hida Yakamo faces down the things spewing forth from the shadowlands. The clan sends for help with the defence but is ignored. Given the state of the court, not unsurprising.
The empire is collapsing, the Emerald Emperor has been assassinated, his champion Toturi has become a wondering ronin, searching for the two missing princes, and along the journey, following the true ronin way, righting wrong as he finds it.
The Crane clan champion, Doji Haturo, finds her clan caught up in territorial challenges from the Lion clan. Is there something else happening here with the appearance amongst the Lion clan of a Phoenix clan member? And what of the Scorpian clan?
The outbreak of war, the happenstance of the disgraced wandering, yet questing ronin, the dark shadowlands push, clans jousting for power, all come together to bring us the beginnings of an epic series.
An Aconyte Books ARC via NetGalley.
Many thanks to the author and publisher.
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