Fuyumi Ono
Hardcover | Pages: 656 pages Rating: 4.47 | 886 Users | 46 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Twelve Kingdoms: Skies of Dawn |
| ISBN: | 1598169491 (ISBN13: 9781598169492) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Twelve Kingdoms (7 books edition) #4 |
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After a year of depending on her ministers to govern the kingdom of Kei, Yoko follows Keiki's advice and descends the mountain to live among her people, eager to learn how to be a better leader from the village's wise-man, Enho. However, when Enho is kidnapped, Yoko finds herself thrust into an all-out war between the kingdoms. Friendships and alliances are put to the test during the Battle of Wa Province. Can Yoko summon the strength to take up her responsibilities as Queen?Declare Epithetical Books The Twelve Kingdoms: Skies of Dawn (The Twelve Kingdoms (7 books edition) #4)
| Title | : | The Twelve Kingdoms: Skies of Dawn (The Twelve Kingdoms (7 books edition) #4) |
| Author | : | Fuyumi Ono |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 656 pages |
| Published | : | March 2nd 2010 by TokyoPop (first published August 5th 1994) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Novels. Light Novel. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.47 From 886 Users | 46 ReviewsJudge Epithetical Books The Twelve Kingdoms: Skies of Dawn (The Twelve Kingdoms (7 books edition) #4)
The character development and world building are amazing! Though some parts are a bit... ngh.All the names are way too similar for me. Maybe they're not confusing at all in the original, but all the Shou's, Kei's, Sai's -something were too much. I was on page 400 and would still mix the names of one the heroines and one the villains. I can't remember them even now, and I just finished it! Thank God for context.That aside, I don't think it's fair of me to judge some narrative elements of a storyf you've seen the Twelve Kingdoms anime series and wondered what in the world was going on in the last story arc, then you should read this book. Beyond that, I don't have much to say. This was an enjoyable piece of fiction. The editing of the Tokyo Pop translation left some things to be desired (e.g., sometimes characters went by multiple names and the wrong name was used given the context), but not so much to significantly impact my enjoyment of the story.
A nice (not) ending to the series. There are 3 more books which will probably not be translated any time soon, much to our collective consternation.This volume is easily as large as the first 3 books combined, and while I got a little confused with some of the similarities between different characters names, it was another compelling window into the Juu ni kokki.
This book is by far my favourite in the series, absolutely amazing in terms of both plot and (especially!) character development. Which is why I feel it would be unfair to lower my rating because of the quality of the translation/editing, even though it was quite outrageous: whole words and, I hear, in the case of the hardback edition, a whole chapter missing. So there, five stars no thanks to TokyoPop, and I recommend double-checking dubious passages with Eugene Woodbury's online translation.
Born in Japan but swept into the Twelve Kingdoms at the age of fourteen, Suzu has known little but hardship. From her roots in poverty to three years of wandering as a constant outsider to a full hundred years in the service of a cruel mistress, she is convinced she is the most miserable person alive. Only the new Glory-King of Kei, a girl about her age who was also from Japan, can truly sympathize with her.Shoukei was a pampered princess---until a rebellion ended the life of her father and
This took me forever to read. My least favorite of the series. Too long (apparently in the original Japanese it was split up into two volumes, which would have been easier to manage), and the constant shifting between three different story lines (interruption) every couple of pages made it hard for me to stay interested for any length of time. Found some of the plot and character development hard to believe. Suzu and Shoukei went from selfish, whiny, utterly useless sacks to hxc rebel fighters
As with the other books in the series, it is awesome and fantastic, with an immersive world (down to creating units of measure and new birthing techniques with the social repurcussions!), a big over-arching plot of the troubles of ruling a kingdom, with the personal stories of three very different girls who converge at the height of the conflict.I knocked a star off because this is by far the worst editing job Tokyopop has done to date. The other books had typos as well, but this one really
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