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Re: 5 PHs left

[(Anonymous)]

#24: The Elementalists (VN), Sweet Enchantments (VN), Keeper Series - Brynn Chernosky
#31: Phoenotopia: Awakening (Video Game), Dice Disasters (Podcast), Tales of the Otori - Lian Hearn

I don't know these canons, but I'm cheering potential pinch hitters on!

Re: 5 PHs left

[(Anonymous)]

SC

A coalie had to say this about Sweet Enchantments (VN): https://coaltide.dreamwidth.org/6150.html?thread=12242182#cmt12242182

Re: 5 PHs left

[(Anonymous)]

https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/281559.html?thread=4020439#cmt4020439

Phoenotopia: Awakening promo post

Re: 5 PHs left

[(Anonymous)]

I remember Across the Nightingale Floor being kind of popular when I was a kid, but I never read it.

Re: 5 PHs left

[(Anonymous)]

Damn, I hated that book so much when I read it in college. But it looks like they're requesting the sequel novel, which I think is just one book that takes place after the trilogy?

Re: 5 PHs left

[(Anonymous)]

why did you hate it?

/purely curious, I have almost no knowledge of it

Re: 5 PHs left

[(Anonymous)]

It takes place in a kind of fantasy Japan (the protagonist is a ninja in training), but it treats the setting as fun window dressing rather than a living, breathing culture. A lot of the characters are persecuted "Christians", which is a thing that happened in Japan sure, but at the time I was really frustrated in finding a book series about fantasy Sengoku that went out of its way to makes its protags as white-seeming as possible. I know the author studied in Japan but it felt to me that you could have changed just the character/place names and you'd never know it wasn't a run of the mill western fantasy, other than they eat a lot of rice.

It's been 20 years so I don't remember the plot so well, other than I hated that too. There's a really flat het romance that's underdeveloped and goes nowhere. The event the book built up to passed without much fanfare. I never finished the trilogy.

But maybe the sequel is better? Hahaha, not helping the case of this pinch hit, sorry!

Re: 5 PHs left

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

Thanks for the explanation! I was worried it was something like that. I guess it's mildly interesting to see if the author got better about that later in the series... Harsh Cry of the Heron is available through my library so I might put a reserve on it, but that won't work for claiming it now. (Could help if whoever picks up the PH bails later in the year.)

Re: 5 PHs left

[(Anonymous)]

I put my hand up for one. We'll see if someone volunteered first.