![]() O-Shizuka is the niece of an emperor, heir to a dynasty, most likely to succeed to the rulership of the Hokkaran empire, and she was born within a month of Shefali, daughter of the leader of the nomadic Qorin. The Tiger’s Daughter gives us two fascinating protagonists in Shefali and O-Shizuka. They’re vastly different, both stylistically and thematically, which is great to see in works that draw so very deeply from similar real-world environmental and historical wells. Aside from the influences that inform the setting and the ambitions of the respective works, they have very little in common. It seems inevitable that The Tiger’s Daughter will be compared to Elizabeth Bear’s Eternal Sky trilogy: Mongol-influenced epic fantasy isn’t all that widespread, and Range of Ghosts and its sequels are fresh in memory. It’s also almost entirely about women: women as comrades, women as lifelong friends who want their daughters to have a similar bond, women as leaders. It’s a coming-of-age story, and an epic romance, and an ambitious book that tells a complete story in itself – though there are two more volumes still to come. ![]() This is, indeed, Mongol-inspired epic fantasy. ![]() That was about it – and the cover copy doesn’t exactly give one much more than that to go on. ![]() I’d heard it was Mongol-inspired epic fantasy. Arsenault Rivera’s debut novel, with very few expectations. ![]()
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