[ SECRET POST #3021 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3021 ⌋

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[lb_lee]

It's called Ladylord, by Sasha Miller, and I truly believe that if it'd been published ten years later, it would've been a hit. (At '95, it JUST predated the huge Japan craze in the US.) As it is, it seems to have mostly been forgotten.

However, no matter which edition of the book you find, the cover blurb is AWFUL. It'll try and portray the book as either some kind of girl power pablum or orientalist wet dream, when in reality it is the only epic fantasy I've ever read that I've ENJOYED. It's got politics and intrigue galore, a ton of great characters, and Dragon Warriors.

I will warn that there is rape in the book (it does not shy away from saying that the society in the book is DOUCHEY to women) and some stuff that now that I'm adult comes off as, "sexually non-normative people are EVIL!" But I still see it as worth a read. It's not so much Epic Quest as "epic quest as an excuse for political takeover."

--Rogan

[nightscale]

You had me at Dragon Warriors.

But! I shall have a look for it. I like fantasy settings and I've been looking for more that deviate from the standard western-inspired fantasy mold(that and I have a bit of a history-boner for feudal Japan).

I can handle Game of Thrones, so unless it's amazingly worse than that series I'll be good.

[lb_lee]

No problem! I really don't think it's intended to be AT ALL alt-history (for one thing, they aren't on an island, and the language they use has phonemes Japanese doesn't have) so any serious want for history will likely be deeply disappointed, but it's a good book and it DEFINITELY deviates from the standard Bland Blond Vaguely Northwest Medieval Europe mold. Which is part of why I like it.

Oh yeah no, it's no Game of Thrones. Like, I'm able to handle it, and I'm pretty touchy about rape and violence. And unlike what I've heard about Game of Thrones, there are plenty of nice people who don't get... I dunno, beaten to death with puppies. The villains are DELIGHTFULLY hateable though!

--Rogan