I don’t even have a star rating for this one stars…
One thousand years ago, a wish was made to the Harbinger of Change and a sword of rage and lightning was forged. Kamigoroshi. The Godslayer. It had one task: to seal away the powerful demon Hakaimono.
Now he has broken free.
Kitsune shapeshifter Yumeko has one task: to take her piece of the ancient and powerful scroll to the Steel Feather temple in order to prevent the summoning of the Harbinger of Change, the great Kami Dragon who will grant one wish to whomever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers. But she has a new enemy now. The demon Hakaimono, who for centuries was trapped in a cursed sword, has escaped and possessed the boy she thought would protect her, Kage Tatsumi of the Shadow Clan.
Hakaimono has done the unthinkable and joined forces with the Master of Demons in order to break the curse of the sword and set himself free. To overthrow the empire and cover the land in darkness, they need one thing: the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers. As the paths of Yumeko and the possessed Tatsumi cross once again, the entire empire will be thrown into chaos.
My Review…
I went back for the second book hoping that maybe the plot line was a little more flushed out since the first book had set up the characters and everything. Even though I was more obsessed with the secondary characters than the main ones. However, the plot line kind of went the same way as the first one for me, and it might just be me, but it felt all over the place. I would get really invested into what was happening in the story and then it would jump over here… then there… then here… then there… I don’t mean character wise I mean plot wise.
There are some good things about these books that I really enjoy, the back stories on the clans, the rituals, the details on how everything is set up in each town or setting. I liked how some of the relationships were set up or played out in this story whether it be friendships or other “ships”. We get to see more Yokai magic in this book which was very nice. The magic in general was better in this book.
I’m not sure if I’ll be invested after this book, at some points when it was hopping around I really thought this could’ve been a duology. However, when it had picked up and really got into it at some points I was like YEESSSS… I’m at a loss.
Author Info…
Julie Kagawa, the New York Times bestselling author of the Iron Fey, Blood of Eden, Talon, and Shadow of the Fox series was born in Sacramento, California. But nothing exciting really happened to her there. So, at the age of nine she and her family moved to Hawaii, which she soon discovered was inhabited by large carnivorous insects, colonies of house geckos, and frequent hurricanes. She spent much of her time in the ocean, when she wasn’t getting chased out of it by reef sharks, jellyfish, and the odd eel.
When not swimming for her life, Julie immersed herself in books, often to the chagrin of her schoolteachers, who would find she hid novels behind her Math textbooks during class. Her love of reading led her to pen some very dark and gruesome stories, complete with colored illustrations, to shock her hapless teachers. The gory tales faded with time, but the passion for writing remained, long after she graduated and was supposed to get a real job.
To pay the rent, Julie worked in different bookstores over the years, but discovered the managers frowned upon her reading the books she was supposed to be shelving. So she turned to her other passion: training animals. She worked as a professional dogtrainer for several years, dodging Chihuahua bites and overly enthusiastic Labradors, until her first book sold and she stopped training to write full time.
Julie now lives in North Carolina with her husband, two obnoxious cats, and a pair of Australian Shepherds that have more Instagram followers than she does.
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This books sounds like it would drive me crazy with all of the jumping around. I’m sorry it did that.
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