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Autumn Princess, Dragon Child
Autumn Princess, Dragon Child: Book 2 in the Tale of Shikanoko series | Lian Hearn
A self-assured warrior stumbles into a game of Go that turns fatal. An ambitious lord leaves his nephew for dead and seizes his lands. A stubborn father forces his son to give up his wife to his older brother. A powerful priest meddles in the succession to the Lotus Throne. A woman of the Old People seeks five fathers for her five children, who will go on to found the Spider Tribe and direct the fate of the country. As destiny weaves its tapestry in Lian Hearn's Tale of Shikanoko series, an emotionally rich and compelling drama plays out against a background of wild forests, elegant castles, hidden temples, and savage battlefields in Autumn Princess, Dragon Child. The Tale of Shikanoko, Book One: Emperor of the Eight Islands (April 2016) The Tale of Shikanoko, Book Two: Autumn Princess, Dragon Child (June 2016) The Tale of Shikanoko, Book Three: Lord of the Darkwood (August 2016) The Tale of Shikanoko, Book Four: The Tengu's Game of Go (September 2016)
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Cindyelizavaz
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This is such a fantastic series! Book two have kept me on my toes, and is pulling me in two direction: I can‘t wait to read more and yet I don‘t want to finish the book so fast! Love love love it!

Two books in the series completed, two more to go!

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Cindyelizavaz
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The second book in the series! Can‘t wait to get lost in the #Shikanoko fantasy land again. I‘m liking this series!! #lianhearn #taleofshikanoko
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On another note - watched #ReadyPlayerOne in cinema yesterday and it Rox my sox off!! Loved the book and loved the movie too! Character was very well played out.

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Tsubame
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THIS IS SO GOOD!!! Man that book had me so tightly in its grip that I had totally not realized that I had to get off the train if not a man had dragged me out of it, because Kyoto is the last stop and so everyone has to get out, but I was glued to the pages 🙈 Holy smokes, that was a first for me!

Yellowpigeon I usually hate series (cliff hangers, drawing our a story unnecessarily long). This was the first I was in the bookstore pre-ordering the next one. 7y
speljamr I just finished this one last week. I will be taking up the next two in a couple weeks. 7y
Tsubame @Yellowpigeon I'm not a series reader too, but this one is finished and contains only four books, so I gave it a chance and now I'm really glad I did! I wasn't sure if book 2 would be as captivating as the first, but a few pages in I ordered book 3 right away! 7y
Tsubame @speljamr I hope the shipping of book 3 will be faster than the previous ones, but then I also enjoy the wait and next time I'll reread the first two books before starting on the third. 7y
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speljamr
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Starts out a little slow, but what an ending it builds up to.

#fantasy

DiruVamp One of the best series I‘ve ever read! 7y
TricksyTails I've never heard of this but it sounds like my kind of story! 7y
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speljamr
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Evening ice cream and a book. Perfection.

mabell Your ice cream sounds right up my husband's alley! Is that a local concoction? 7y
speljamr @mabell Yes, this is a local company in Buffalo, NY. 7y
Shemac77 I started hyperventilating when I saw your ice cream! Whiskey in ice cream seems like utter perfection to me. 7y
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Conservio
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Back to the "medieval" Japanese type world.. the last book felt a bit like generic European medieval fantasy so fingers crossed this ones better.

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silentrequiem
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Almost done. So close to the end...

Blair_Reads That mug!!!! Where did you find it? 8y
silentrequiem @Blair_Reads Society 6! Karen Hallion's shop. 8y
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silentrequiem
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Breakfast break reading.

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silentrequiem
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Getting some reading in while helping with trivia.
Also, new Fire tablet! Treated myself because the 8gb was NOT ENOUGH ROOM.

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Litsy
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Congrats to @Well-ReadNeck @lindsayreads @Tcip who have each won the Tale of Shikanoko series from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux!! (Corgi not included 😊) We'll be in touch soon!

#AllHallowsRead

LindsayReads Hurrah! And thank you! 💞💞💞💞💞 8y
Tcip YAY!!!!! I AM TOO EXCITED FOR THIS!!!! 8y
BrooklynBookGirl Hooray @Well-ReadNeck !!!!! 8y
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Theresa Congratulations, winners!! 8y
swishandflick Woohoo! Congratulations 🎉 8y
Robothugs Congrats @Well-ReadNeck! 8y
LaurenBusser Congrats winners! Bummer about the corgi...😉 8y
read_diverse_books This is too cute! 😍 Congrats to the winners. 8y
PenguinInFlight So cute!! 😍Congrats, guys!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 8y
Well-ReadNeck 🎉🎉🎉 8y
Lizpixie Congratulations!🎉🎉🎉 8y
TheTallented Congrats!!!! 8y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa Congratulations! 8y
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TheBookCorgi
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What? Mahm's not here to take pictures of ME??

#puppydogeyes #AllHallowsRead #ScaryReads #TheBookCorgi

Emory What a cute pup! 🐶❤ 8y
MrBook 😻😻😻 8y
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caitlinalrogers
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Loving this series so far; these books have some of the best cover art I've ever seen. #thetaleofshikanoko #adultfiction

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MatthewBurris
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Pickpick

I finally started this once the third in the series came out with the intention to just get it off my tbr pile and move to on to other stuff. Around halfway something clicked. Straight on to the third one now.

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12parsecs
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Seriously, this series is so fantastic! I picked up the 3rd book before I was halfway done with the 2nd. 😍A good decision because the ending had me begging for more. ✨🐲

DiruVamp I'm starting book 3 tomorrow and I cannot wait! 8y
12parsecs @DiruVamp I think I'm going to wait until closer to the end of August, so I don't have too much of a gap to suffer before 4 is released. 😜 8y
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12parsecs
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I can't really tell, but I think someone might want my attention 🤔

LauraBeth awwww 😻😻😻 8y
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12parsecs
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When your bio and your current book line up perfectly 👌🏻

jessberk13 Pretty background! How did you do that?! 8y
12parsecs @jessica the app is called Afterlight! It's .99 cents but it's so worth it, I use it to edit all my photos! The wallpaper pack is .99 cents as well. 8y
jessberk13 Thanks! 8y
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kdwinchester
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This has been the book I've been reading at the gym for awhile now. Loving this series. Still going to wait to review them as a whole, but I def recommend them so far! 🍁👸🏻🐲👦🏻

BethFishReads I too am waiting to formally review. But *love* 8y
12parsecs 🏹🌲 just realized there really needs to be a stag emoji 8y
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12parsecs
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Look at what came in the mail finally 😍 couldn't wait until I got home to open it up and now it is making these spreadsheets even less desirable #accountingproblems

Laalaleighh Is that the second or third one? 8y
12parsecs @Laalaleighh the second! You could see that if my large hand wasn't covering it 😂😂✋🏻 8y
Laalaleighh Ah! I'm waiting for the third (which I don't think is out yet?) so I can read all three back to back! Such pretty covers! 8y
12parsecs @Laalaleighh I'm not sure of the exact dates but the third is supposed to be sometime this month and the fourth comes out in September! The covers are so pretty! It's actually what caught my attention at the book store 😝 8y
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12parsecs

Look at what came in the mail finally 😍 couldn't wait until I got home to open it up and now it is making these spreadsheets even less desirable #accountingproblems

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kdwinchester
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Sometimes you can't go to sleep because the next book in a series whispers to you from across the room. Tonight is one of those nights.

Sasha728 Been there, done that! :) 8y
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Dogearedcopy
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These were some of the books purchased w/the APPL settlement funds last week: 'The Curse of the Tenth Grave' (new release); The Paper Magician trilogy (new-to-me); 'The Cairo Affair' (backlist; litsy rec) and 'Autumn Princess, Dragon Child' (2016 title/most likely the next off the stax) #TBRTuesday

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MatthewBurris
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The first one in this series was good enough, I'm down to try this one. I'm not entirely sure they're my 'thing' yet.

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BethFishReads
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Pickpick

Am loving this series. Medieval Japan, a little magic, politics, family, love, battles. Loyalties tested, alliances made. I'm trying not to speed through the books, but I want to know what happens.

Jess_Read_This Beautiful cover! 8y
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DiruVamp
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I was hoping this would be as good as the first book in the series. I was not disappointed. It was just as interesting and action packed as the first. But now I have to wait until October to read the last two books 😭

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DiruVamp
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I cannot wait to dive into this one and see what happens! I enjoyed book 1 so much and @callunakeep has told me book 2 is just as good!

DaveNeufeld Sweet cover 8y
DiruVamp @DaveNeufeld the covers are great! And it's embossed so that makes them even cooler. 8y
DaveNeufeld Yeah wow, I just took a look at the rest. I think I need to own these... 8y
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callunakeep
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A sequel truly worthy of the first! If I hadn't had to work & babysit I would have easily read this in one sitting! I could hardly put it down it was so enthralling! And now I have to wait til August for book 3! Books 3 & 4 already on preorder! If you haven't already, add this series to your TBR!

DiruVamp You finished it already? 8y
Liberty I am waiting on book 4 - I'm enjoying the series so much! 🤘🏼 8y
callunakeep @Liberty How did you get book 3 already? I am so jealous! 8y
callunakeep @DiruVamp Yes! I finished it last night! I was about 60 pages in when I put the baby to bed at 8:45 and stayed up til 12:45 finishing it! I could NOT put it down and lost all track of time! 8y
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callunakeep
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Sooo true!!!

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callunakeep
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It has arrived!!! So excited to come home to this in the mail today!!

DiruVamp Mine is expected tomorrow and I cannot wait! 8y
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BethFishReads
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The second of four books in Hearn's new medieval Japanese fantasy series. Love, magic, spiritualism, battles, power, & honor. Get ready to be dazzled.

capriciousreader What? How? Where?!! 9y
BethFishReads @capriciousreader just got it today. Out in June. I'm feeling the excitement. Will start reading them next week 9y
capriciousreader I can't wait to hear what you think. 9y
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capriciousreader I looked it up on Edelweiss. All 4 are coming out this year! 9y
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