At times, it feels like nothing's happening, but when you pause long enough to think about the plot, you realize she's keeping you engaged without any tricks. It's not purple or overly distracting it simply flows well, carrying the reader along in its gentle yet relentless pace. There's a plot to Journey to Inuyama, but Hearn's narrative takes center stage. Hearn writes well, with her style and characterization carrying the story. Their stories take place against the backdrop of the lords' politics, in which they will serve a large part, but the story is about Takeo and Keade first and foremost. Where we learn of Takeo and Keade's histories in the first part, in the second part we see them come together, where their lives will become intertwined. It picks up right after the first part ends, and serves as acts two and three of the book. The first novel in the epic Tales of the Otori series, Across the Nightingale Floor is followed by Grass For His Pillow and Brilliance of the Moon.Journey to Inuyama is the second part of Across the Nightingale Floor, the first book in Hearn's five-book fantasy story set in an alternate feudal Japan. He has love in his heart and death at his fingertips. Read more warriors, has the magical skills of the Tribe - preternatural hearing, invisibility, a second self - that enable him to enter the lair of the Tohan.
But sixteen-year-old Otori Takeo, his family murdered by Iida's. Its surface sings at the tread of every human foot, and no assassin can cross it.
In his palace at Inuyama, Lord Iida Sadamu, warlord of the Tohan clan, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Set in a mythical, feudal, Japanese land, a world both beautiful and cruel, the intense love story of two young people takes place against a background of warring clans, secret alliances, high honour and lightning swordplay. Lian Hearn's stunningly powerful bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor, is an epic story for readers young and old.
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