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A review by spaceysloth
Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
2.0
Jay is one of my favorite authors. But this book just wasn’t great. However I can see how he has grown as an author since.
The first 100 pages were a real struggle. There was a lot of world building but it didn’t feel flushed out. For me the prose felt confusing and the characters forgettable. After the first 100 pages I started to kind of get an idea of this story. But the plot didn’t feel complete. It was hard as a reader to see the vision.
Storm dancer is about the main character Yukiko having to capture a mythical beast for the Shōgun. However the world that Yukiko lives in is plagued by the lotus flower and its deadly poison both to humans and the environment. Initial this sounding intriguing to me but I felt like it needed more and less of different things.
I would say a similar book that’s more recently published as of this year would be To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X Chang. This book is more YA while Stormdancer I believe is considered Adult?
By far my least favorite Jay book and I won’t be continuing the trilogy.
The first 100 pages were a real struggle. There was a lot of world building but it didn’t feel flushed out. For me the prose felt confusing and the characters forgettable. After the first 100 pages I started to kind of get an idea of this story. But the plot didn’t feel complete. It was hard as a reader to see the vision.
Storm dancer is about the main character Yukiko having to capture a mythical beast for the Shōgun. However the world that Yukiko lives in is plagued by the lotus flower and its deadly poison both to humans and the environment. Initial this sounding intriguing to me but I felt like it needed more and less of different things.
I would say a similar book that’s more recently published as of this year would be To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X Chang. This book is more YA while Stormdancer I believe is considered Adult?
By far my least favorite Jay book and I won’t be continuing the trilogy.