A review by honnari_hannya
Emperor of the Eight Islands by Lian Hearn

4.0

Not quite as gripping as her Tales of the Otori series, which remains one of my favorite Asian fantasy series of all time, but you can tell Lian Hearn knows her feudal Japanese history. I wasn't quite as invested in these characters, and the plot seemed more incidental in this first book than in the Otori books, but that's probably intentional and will come together through the rest of the series.