But with her growing son asking questions about the outside world, the threat of an impending invasion looming across the sea, and her frigid husband grating on her nerves, Misaki finds the fighter in her clawing its way back to the surface.My friend, Amanda, author of A Wizard’s Forge, messaged me that I absolutely had to add The Sword of Kaigen to my reading list because, “it’s the best book I’ve read in several years.” With that high praise, I immediately started looking into Wang’s novel that had just been announced as the the winner of the 5th Self Publishing Fantasy Blog Off (SPFBO5) where 300 self published books had been whittled down to one winner over an 11 month period.
Determined to be a good housewife and mother, she hid away her sword, along with everything from her days as a fighter in a faraway country. Misaki told herself that she left the passions of her youth behind when she married into the Matsuda house.
Worse, the empire he was bred to defend may stand on a foundation of lies. But when an outsider arrives and pulls back the curtain on Kaigen’s alleged age of peace, Mamoru realizes that he might not have much time to become the fighter he was bred to be. For hundreds of years, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held the Empire’s enemies at bay, earning their frozen spit of land the name ‘The Sword of Kaigen.’īorn into Kusanagi’s legendary Matsuda family, fourteen-year-old Mamoru has always known his purpose: to master his family’s fighting techniques and defend his homeland. High on a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful warriors in the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire? Or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies even reach their shores? A mother struggling to repress her violent past,Ī son struggling to grasp his violent future,Ī father blind to the danger that threatens them all.
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