J.Y. Yang
Paperback | Pages: 236 pages Rating: 3.78 | 5662 Users | 1095 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Black Tides of Heaven |
| ISBN: | 076539541X (ISBN13: 9780765395412) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Tensorate #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novella (2018), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novella (2017), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Novella (2018) |
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The Black Tides of Heaven is one of a pair of standalone introductions to JY Yang's Tensorate Series. For more of the story you can read its twin novella The Red Threads of Fortune Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as children. While Mokoya developed her strange prophetic gift, Akeha was always the one who could see the strings that moved adults to action. While his sister received visions of what would be, Akeha realized what could be. What's more, he saw the sickness at the heart of his mother's Protectorate. A rebellion is growing. The Machinists discover new levers to move the world every day, while the Tensors fight to put them down and preserve the power of the state. Unwilling to continue to play a pawn in his mother's twisted schemes, Akeha leaves the Tensorate behind and falls in with the rebels. But every step Akeha takes towards the Machinists is a step away from his sister Mokoya. Can Akeha find peace without shattering the bond he shares with his twin sister?Define Containing Books The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorate #1)
| Title | : | The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorate #1) |
| Author | : | J.Y. Yang |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 236 pages |
| Published | : | September 26th 2017 by Tor.com |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. LGBT. Novella. GLBT. Queer |
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Ratings: 3.78 From 5662 Users | 1095 ReviewsEvaluate Containing Books The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorate #1)
2.5ish stars.Innovative and compelling but also sort of claustrophobic and manic. There's some really cool world-building in the tiny bits and pieces it's detailed, but it's basically half the length of a novel, and there's only half the amount of world-building there needs to be in order to provide the bare minimum amount of context. All the cool bits are casually breezed through in order to focus on the actual events, which end up being rushed and always unresolved. Again, in half a novelI was really impressed with J.Y. Yang's The Black Tides of Heaven. This was a novella that felt like reading an entire novel because of everything that it covered. The world building was phenomenal, what they did with gender in this was fantastic, especially the entire coronation of picking the gender. I love books that are about siblings and that is one main reason why I loved this story. I like twin stories even more, so this book really delivered for me. A great little plot, an amazing world
This short little novella manages to tick a lot of my boxes: sociological worldbuilding, a focus on sibling relationships, interesting social structures, musings on gender, and a language that just transported me along.This book focusses on Mokoya and Akeha, twin children of the ruler of their country, how they are used as pawns in their mothers power machinations but also how they find their agency in a world that does not want to give them any. While Mokoya develops rare prophetic powers their
Fun and fast epic fantasy novella. Or is it SF? Regardless, there are great little tidbits and dense worldbuilding going on here and I had a pretty awesome time. I love detailed worldbuilding, but sometimes diving right into an assumed world only shown, rarely told, is its own joy.Odd, no? But exposition CAN be quite comforting in a tale. This doesn't have all that much of it, and that is fine except when it can get a bit overwhelming. The rest of the time, we have to just rely on the characters
This was truly delightful. I think the only issue I had was that it was abbreviated where it could have been made into a truly moving story if it had a little more flesh on its bones. It worked really well as is, but I think it could have been superlative with a little more space.CONTENT WARNING: (view spoiler)[emotional abuse, torture, death of children (hide spoiler)]Things to love:-The take on gender. Hard to miss and hard not to love. A culture that does not force gender, and even postpones
Tremendous and highly original fantasy novella, one of a pair starting a series. You know how loads of fantasy is set in a sort of not-Europe-but-really? This is set in a not-Asia, with Chinese, Japanese and Nepalese echoes rather than the standard German, Italian, Ruritanian. Beautifully delineated world, lovely social, political and magical development. And the gender! Kids are all 'they' until they pick a gender, which they can do aged three or sixteen or never. A default they for everyone.
Actual Rating: 3.5The Black Tides of Heaven centers around a pair of twins, Mokoya & Akeha, as they navigate a complicated political landscape & constantly dodge the schemes set forth by their mother, the Protector.It always excites me when I get the opportunity to read a fantasy story with nontraditional setting. Though this is only a novella, author J.Y. Yang manages to pack in rich cultural aspects, along with a magic system that reads like a more complex & spiritually oriented
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