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The Tiger's Daughter
- Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
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Summary
Even gods can be slain.
The Hokkaran Empire has conquered every land within their bold reach - but failed to notice a lurking darkness festering within the people. Now their border walls begin to crumble, and villages fall to demons swarming out of the forests.
Away on the silver steppes, the remaining tribes of nomadic Qorin retreat and protect their own, having bartered a treaty with the empire, exchanging inheritance through the dynasties. It is up to two young warriors, raised together across borders since their prophesied birth, to save the world from the encroaching demons.
This is the story of an infamous Qorin warrior, Barsalayaa Shefali, a spoiled divine warrior empress, O Shizuka, and a power that can reach through time and space to save a land from a truly insidious evil.
A crack in the wall heralds the end...two goddesses arm themselves....
K Arsenault Rivera's The Tiger's Daughter is an adventure for the ages.
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- R. Maines
- 02-08-18
Great!
A great debut novel that tells a f/f love story across a background of China/ Mongolia where demons exist and their blood is infectious.
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- M
- 08-01-18
Pretty great
This was a rather enjoyable audio book, it was well read and rather than spoon feed you the answers leaves you a trail of breadcrumbs throughout the book that allows you to figure it out for yourself.
While it takes a couple of chapters to get into the flow of the story once you do it is difficult to put down.
There is a touching love story between the two main characters that, while I love and is tastefully done, thankfully does not wash away a fascinating plot.
I look forward to listening to book 2.
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- Sharon
- 24-07-19
Insufferable, inelegant, ignorant and lazy.
I was initially very excited for this book. It was a fantasy book with an Asian inspired setting and LGBT endorsement, I was keen to give it a go.
However, I am very disappointed. This is the worst book I've read in a long time. I struggled through the first 2-3 hours of the story in the hope it would get to the long promised 'story'. It did not.
As a writer, I would be ashamed if I employed half of the 'techniques' that K. Arsenault Rivera has used. They have managed to generate the most uninspiring prose I have read in a long time. Flat, boring and pretentious.
I have no doubt that they have many notebooks overflowing with world building, I know I do. But I would never hamfistedly include it ALL within the first third of the book, at the expense of any momentum within the story. (And there was not much of that to begin with).
Furthermore, I'd like to state that a good portion of people on GoodReads seem to find the worldbuilding in this book quite offensive. I can entirely understand why, I felt quite uncomfortable reading large portions of this book.
But the most egregious sin I believe this book commits, I have saved until last.
Large portions of this book are told in these absolutely ridiculous and childish letters that our main character receives from a childhood friend. Every letter this friend writes is absolutely massive, taking up hours of time within the narrative. That would be tedious by itself, but not a deal breaker if these letters were written well and served a narrative purpose. (They are not, and do not).
What broke me with these letters is as follows. The childhood friend is writing these hundred page letters to our main character, about the childhood of our main character. I can only imagine how much I would worry about my friends if they started sending me stacks and stacks of papers, detailing events that we both witnessed a few years ago. This is never raised as a plot point though, this isn't portrayed as a breakdown of the character.
It is just a lazy exposition dump in the laziest possible format. No momentum, just someone we barely know reading a piece of paper in a tent. An excuse for the author to do some world building about different types of font within their universe.
Insufferable, inelegant, ignorant and lazy. Avoid at all costs
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