Series
The Lotus War
Jay Kristoff · 3 novels · 1 novella · 2012–2014
The Lotus War is Jay Kristoff's steampunk fantasy trilogy set in a pollution-choked, Japanese-inspired empire: Stormdancer (2012), Kinslayer and Endsinger, with the novella The Last Stormdancer as a coda. It follows a young woman who tames a griffin-like beast thought extinct, drawing her into a rebellion against the empire's oppressive Shogunate. It is a complete trilogy plus novella.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
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Stats
By decade
- 2010s4
Shape
3 novels · 1 novella
1 author
reads like:fantasyrebellion and revolutionsecondary worldtimeless or unspecifieddarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Kinslayerdarkest · calmest
- Stormdancerbrightest · most intense