A review by bosstweed
Dragon Sword and Wind Child, by Cathy Hirano, Noriko Ogiwara, Miho Satake

4.0

This is such an interesting book, it fuses traditional Japanese mythology and traditional western fantasy tropes and sometimes will lean too far in to the western tradition. The book is not overtly Japanese, in fact it is pretty broadly pan-Asian in its influences and references and creates this wonderfully imagined world. The story is not just compelling but is not predictable, it has so many moments in it that I hadn’t expected and so many that came as a wonderful surprise. That being said, some of the book was a little cheesy, I found myself rolling my eyes or questions why a passage was put in but those moments are few and far between. This has one of the sweetest endings of a fantasy book and while I believe this is a young adult book, I would love to see a darker and much grittier twist to it.