Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff6/25/2023 Having a location in an alternate Japan means that all of the characters were of colour. Steampunk is easily one of my favorites in the fantasy genre, but it is quite often set in Europe. The moment I found out that Stormdancer was Japanese steampunk, I was in all the way. Can Yukiko save a nation that is so addicted to chi and mechanization that it is killing the environment? The more time they spend together in Japan's last unchanged forest, the more they take on aspects of each other's personalities, which becomes crucial in the coming days, when Yukiko is tasked with destroying the Shōgun's despotic regime. Using her powers of telepathy, Yukiko develops a bond with the arashtora and eventually names it Buruu after her deceased brother. They manage to do the impossible and catch an arashitora, but unfortunately, their airship crashes leaving Yukiko no idea of whether her father has lived or died and alone with an arashitora who initially has no interest in her. If that were not bad enough, her father has been sent on a mission by the Shōgun of Shima to do the impossible - hunt an arashitora, which are thought to be extinct. Her mother has run off, her brother died and she now has to watch over her drug addicted father Masaru. Kitsune Yukiko has lead an extremely difficult life for such a young woman.
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