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Lotus War Trilogy, Book One by Jay Kristoff
Coming 09/18/12
ISBN-13: 978-1250001405 St. Martin's Press, 400 pages.
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A DYING LAND
The Shima Isles are verging on the brink of environmental collapse; decimated by clockwork industrialization and the omnipotent mechanoids of the Lotus Guild. The skies are red as blood, land choked with toxic pollution, wildlife ravaged by mass extinctions.
AN IMPOSSIBLE QUEST
The hunters of Shima's imperial court are charged by their Shōgun to capture a thunder tiger – a legendary beast, half-eagle, half-tiger. But any fool knows thunder tigers have been extinct for more than a century, and the price of failing the Shōgun is death.
A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL
Yukiko is a child of the Fox clan, possessed of a hidden gift that would see her executed by the Lotus Guild. Accompanying her father on the Shōgun’s hunt, she finds herself stranded: a young woman alone in Shima’s last wilderness, with only a furious, crippled thunder tiger for company. Even though she can hear his thoughts, even though she saved his life, all she knows for certain is he’d rather see her dead than help her.
But together, the pair will form an indomitable friendship, and rise to challenge the might of an empire.
Jesus! There have been some exceptionally great covers this year, but this cover just CRUSHED the competition. Everything about it just sings. I want an epic read, and I want a an epic heroine. This cover delivers it all. I want this book with a vengeance.
Jay Kristoff interviews the amazing cover artist Jason Chan, read their interview on the birth of this exceptional cover here.
