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The Twelve Kingdoms: Skies Of Dawn (2010)

by Fuyumi Ono(Favorite Author)

4.46 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1598169491 (ISBN13: 9781598169492)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

TokyoPop

series

The Twelve Kingdoms

review 1: This is the fourth book in the Twelve Kingdoms series by Ono and is portrayed in the anime series (season 2) pretty much story for story. It's also long--looks like a brick without its cover--and has lots of random typos. I found a "w" all by itself once. But that's to be expected when your publisher is "Pop Fiction" and you're translated from Japanese. The story goes slowly, which is one of the reasons it's so enormous in print, but it goes and the ex-princess and the kaikyaku do finally grow up and become helpful to Yoko. Keiki is portrayed as a rather spoiled child in this volume, but it serves as a foil to the other kirin in the book. So if you're reading the series, have at it. Or you could watch the second season and be just fine.
review 2: As with the ot... moreher books in the series, it is awesome and fantastic, with an immersive world (down to creating units of measure and new birthing techniques with the social repurcussions!), a big over-arching plot of the troubles of ruling a kingdom, with the personal stories of three very different girls who converge at the height of the conflict.I knocked a star off because this is by far the worst editing job Tokyopop has done to date. The other books had typos as well, but this one really surpasses them. Names are mixed up, particles are dropped/scrambled, words misspelled....but the worst part? IT IS MISSING A WHOLE CHAPTER.Between chapter 16 and 17, there is a bizarre plot skip. Though the story survives without it, I felt a little weird until I searched online and found a fan translation of it (by Eugene Woodbury).Very bad, Tokyopop. Will they ever fix it in the next edition? Who knows. I'm irritated that my nice hardcover (of cheap paper) is hiding pieces of poo in it's depths, but this series is fabulous enough that I would pay for the paperback too to make it right. less

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