' The Tiger's Daughter sinks its claws into a reader and refuses to let them go until the very last page.As a word, ambitious sums up this debut.' - Culturess 'Rivera's immense imagination and finely detailed worldbuilding have produced a series introduction of mammoth scope.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) thoughtfully rendered and palpably felt.' - The Washington Post lavishly chronicling how two women fall in love. 'K Arsenault Rivera turns many of the standard conventions of fantasy on their heads.A love letter. This is the story of an infamous Qorin warrior, Barsalayaa Shefali, a spoiled divine warrior empress, O Shizuka, and a power that can reach through time and space to save a land from a truly insidious evil.Ī crack in the wall heralds the end.two goddesses arm themselves.K Arsenault Rivera's T he Tiger's Daughter is an adventure for the ages. It is up to two young warriors, raised together across borders since their prophesied birth, to save the world from the encroaching demons. Now, their border walls begin to crumble, and villages fall to demons swarming out of the forests.Īway on the silver steppes, the remaining tribes of nomadic Qorin retreat and protect their own, having bartered a treaty with the empire, exchanging inheritance through the dynasties.

The Hokkaran empire has conquered every land within their bold reach-but failed to notice a lurking darkness festering within the people. The Verge's SF/F Books to Read in October 2017īookRiot's Most Anticipated Titles of 2017 Paste Magazine's 10 Most Anticipated Books in October 2017 Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of the Shades of Magic series Rich, expansive, and grounded in human truth.simply exquisite.' -V.

K Arsenault Rivera's debut, The Tiger's Daughter, the beginning of a new epic fantasy trilogy

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