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The Wall of Storms
The Wall of Storms | Ken Liu
62 posts | 20 read | 25 to read
In the much-anticipated sequel to the magnificent fantasy epic (NPR) Grace of Kings, Emperor Kuni Garu is faced with the invasion of an invincible army in his kingdom and must quickly find a way to defeat the intruders. Kuni Garu, now known as Emperor Ragin, runs the archipelago kingdom of Dara, but struggles to maintain progress while serving the demands of the people and his vision. Then an unexpected invading force from the Lyucu empire in the far distant west comes to the shores of Daraand chaos results. But Emperor Kuni cannot go and lead his kingdom against the threat himself with his recently healed empire fraying at the seams, so he sends the only people he trusts to be Daras savvy and cunning hopes against the invincible invaders: his children, now grown and ready to make their mark on history.
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asterese
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Some of these books have been on my TBR for too long. Looking forward to reading these, and a whole new year of reading challenges in 2022. 😃🎆

Hoping you all have a Happy New Year, and get to read the books you want to read, fellow Littens! 💛

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Cinfhen Woohoo 🥳 🙌🏻💕yay!!! Congrats 🎉this is your #OfficialSpringEntry 🌷🌈📚#Booked2020 4y
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Take my heart, Ken Liu. Take it all. Such a wild journey i have been on with this book. The heartache is real. I bawled in tears. I was angry. I was frustrated. Most of all, i love how strong the female characters are in this book. Thanks for the ride. Till we meet again in book 3. #epicfantasy #bookreview

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Cindyelizavaz
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Finally diving into this doorstopper! Finished book 1 a year or so ago. 851 pages of #epicfantasy for company this week! #nowreading

jenniferw88 I hope to get to this in May - it's my last book for the #Spring prompts for #booked2020 @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage 5y
Cinfhen Did you know it‘s a chunkster @jenniferw88 ???? 5y
jenniferw88 @Cinfhen yes 😂, that's why I hope to start in May and that the #bookspinbonanza doesn't give me any other chunksters from my list at the beginning! I really enjoyed book 1 last year and tend to fly through fantasy books, so should be ok. 5y
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BarbaraTheBibliophage That‘s an intense cover! 5y
Cindyelizavaz @jenniferw88 I've been hard at work trying to finish this since i posted this picture up. Only half way through! What a doorstopper! Haha. @Cinfhen 5y
Cindyelizavaz @BarbaraTheBibliophage the cover makes sense mid way through!! Both book 1 and book 2 have intense cover. 5y
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Holy wow, what a ride! If you like epic fantasy you really need to give this series a try. This book is the 2nd of 3 planned. The women really come into their own in this book and drive the story and the action and end up (literally) ruling the world. Highly recommended. 5🌟
Another ✔️ off my TBR list and a ✔️for finishing a series (published so far)!!
#mountTBRchallenge @DivaDiane
#yearofthechunkster #finishtheseries

Mitch Glad to hear that! Loved book 1 but wanted for women to come to the fore. 7y
RaimeyGallant Nice title. 7y
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"Killing the emporer was easy. Building a world that is more just and persuading those in power to exercise it wisely [has] been far harder."

In books AND in life. Sigh.

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I‘ve had this book out from the library for a few months now - I know I want to read it, but I haven‘t been able to psych myself up to tackle an 800+ page fantasy novel. Maybe tomorrow... #unreturnedbook #riotgrams

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Whee my Book Outlet order FINALLY arrived (2 days late) after sitting at another city's post office for several days! I ordered these and four National Geographic kids books (I quickly hid them away) for presents for some family friends at the Thanksgiving sale and am just relieved that they reached me.

MrBook Whoooaaa! Looks awesome! #NiceStack! (edited) 7y
llwheeler Is that Uncanny Reader from the magazine Uncanny? 7y
tracy.anne8 The same thing happened to my order from Black Friday as well as another Litten. It seems to be a common theme with these orders. Glad you finally got it though! 7y
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Day 5 #riotgrams - big books. This whopper clocks in at over 850+ pages, but it's by Ken Liu, so every word is perfect and necessary #bigbooks

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ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled
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Some predicted-to-be-5-star reads from my TBR. I want to read all of these RIGHT NOW. #fivestarprediction Thanks for the tag @swishandflick ! Tagging @HotMessJess @Lcsmcat @tricours @Tamra @Kshakal to see theirs! Everyone join in! I wanna see everyone's picks!

swishandflick 🙌🏽 7y
merelybookish I was encouraged to read Perfume by Littens. They were right! 7y
Tamra Perfume is disturbingly good! I read it first and then everything I could get by Suskind. 7y
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HotMessJess As soon as I get unpacked, I will share!! 7y
Reviewsbylola I've been curious about & Sons and Serena. 7y
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My #challenge is to read the books on my TBR shelf without buying more books. So far I am losing. #anditsaugust

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Ok, Amazon, I don't need you making me feel bad about the fact that I bought this ebook forever ago and haven't read it... don't they know I buy ebooks on sale because I'm totally going to read it *at some point* and then hoard them/forget about them??? 😂 📚📚📚📚📚 #bookwormproblems

BarbaraTheBibliophage Same here. 😱 7y
CocoReads Guilty 7y
Ashley_Nicoletto Me too. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 7y
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Bookcation74 Haha ditto! 7y
MrBook I have about 300 on my kindle! 😂👏🏻 7y
ReadingEnvy Botm does this too, I'm like I can't rate that book yet! Nope not that one either... 7y
hyacinth Same. Cover looks amazing though! 7y
roaming.reader Ahahahaha!!! I'm the same!!! 7y
jmtrivera Amazon all up in your reading business, trying to guilt you! 7y
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sakeriver
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Really enjoyed this one. As much as I liked the first, I think this one was in many ways more interesting. Partially because it went in directions I wasn't expecting at all, plotwise, but also because I liked the characters even better. Whether new ones I met for the first time here, or those who I got to see continue to develop from the previous book, I really enjoyed these characters.

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The sequel to The Grace of Kings, The Wall of Storms is an inventive and addictive epic fantasy, the perfect read while waiting for the new season of Game of Thrones. It really is an amazing blend of philosophy, technology, politics and war, featuring a cast of vivid characters. So many characters! Luckily, there's a cheat sheet to help the reader keep track. At over 800 pages, it's not a light read, but it is a page turner!

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"If the young do not have radical ideas, the world will never change."

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Just finished the incredible The Wall of Storms. As a sequel to The Grace of Kings, I was doubtful it would top its predecessor, but I was quite wrong. It's another phenomenal installment in this Chinese-influenced epic fantasy series, with excellent prose, wonderful characters, and sharp, gripping storytelling. Absolutely cannot wait for the sequel next year.

DrexEdit Oh god, I was afraid of that. I really need to concentrate on my challenge lists reading but I just finished the grace of Kings. I'm going to have to make a b&n run tomorrow. 😁 7y
JamesChatham @DrexEdit I hope you love it when you read it!!! 7y
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These are the only books I have that have #weather #aprilbookshowers @RealLifeReading

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To everyone out there protesting all the things wrong in the world: this one's for you.

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Full review here: http://wp.me/p21txV-yS

I was NOT expecting the emotional impact this book delivered. I even got teary-eyed IN PUBLIC a few times, which shows just how GOOD this book is because I don't like getting emotional in public. Now I cannot wait to read the next one, and see where the story goes next. The only thing I know for sure is that, wherever it goes, it's going to be awesome - and painful.

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Someone must've forgotten to send the memo to Westeros then.

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So I just finished this book while sick with a bout of norovirus. Never mind my guts; my HEART is broken, damn it! How the hell am I supposed to write a review for this?

Godmotherx5 Norvo is nasty. Hope you're feeling better & getting over the book. 8y
kammartinez @Godmotherx5 Feeling much improved now, thanks - or at least, my guts feel better. My heart, not so much. 8y
Godmotherx5 Sorry, I can't fix that for you. I can send you a virtual hug. 8y
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So I started a bullet journal at the top of this year and I'm still figuring out what I want to do with it. Atm I'm using it as a place to improve my handwriting and make notes on the books I read. Anyway, last night I reached the midway point of The Wall of Storms, and...well. This is how is felt. Kudos to the author for compromising me emotionally so early in the year XD.

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Texreader Haha! This quote is so true about professors in law school!! 8y
kammartinez @Texreader A friend of mine who tried for the bar agreed with this as well XD. 8y
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If only more politicians were aware of this :|.

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It's amazing how this applies to so many things: movies, TV shows, comics, video games, books...politicians...

ValerieAndBooks Awesome quote! 8y
kammartinez @ValerieAndBooks Thanks! Ken Liu is a great writer; the book's filled with similar material and I've been happily mining it for a while now :D. 8y
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What an odd typesetting error. I have to say this is the first like this I've ever come across. Neat. (Yeah, I'm a weirdo; this is not news.)

[DELETED] 546088815 I notice things like that too. Always makes me wonder. 😊 8y
JessicaThunstromNelson @ElizaWin I used to be a proof reader, so typos jump out at me in most books, it's just how unusual it is to have a number string in the middle of a word. 8y
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Notafraidofwords Ugh If this is not true, I don't know what is 8y
kammartinez @Notafraidofwords Now if only more parents realized this. 8y
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"Life is short, but knowledge grows ever more abundant." -Ken Liu, The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty #2)

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The god of war is also the god of the weak.

Things have been mildly crazy around where I live (look up the protests against Ferdinand Marcos' burial), which is why I've been quiet, but we refuse to go down without a fight. And even if we lose, we'll just get right back up and fight again. We refuse to stand for this blatant attempt erase history. I hope the gods of war look upon us with favor, because we're gonna need it.

BookishMarginalia Hug 💜 8y
RanaElizabeth Stay safe and stay strong. 8y
kammartinez @BookishMarginalia @RanaElizabeth Thanks. We haven't got any plans of giving up on this. We owe it to our parents and our grandparents, who helped bring down Marcos' dictatorship. They bought my generation's right to free speech and protest with their lives; we don't plan to waste those rights. 8y
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RanaElizabeth @kammartinez I work with substance users and we've all been following what Duterte's been doing on that issue and so this burial fight is just shit icing on an asshole cake. Marcos was not a hero, in any sense of the word. 8y
kammartinez @RanaElizabeth Did you hear about the "rehab center" Duterte's adapting from a plan Pres. Aquino intended for a prison? The thing looks like Auschwitz. And given the political winds right now, we're all afraid that martial law is on the horizon. Duterte has dismissed the notion, but we all know how he changes his mind at the drop of a hat. 8y
RanaElizabeth @kammartinez Ugh, just looked that up. That is definitely not rehab. You can't have that many patients and expect meaningful change. 8y
kammartinez @RanaElizabeth Many people here agree with that view. The problem is that the Philippines still views drug abuse as a crime to be punished, which hinders more humane (and probably more effective) methods of treatment. It doesn't help that there's a class element at play, in that since most of drug abusers are from below the poverty line, the rich would rather just lock them up. Out of sight, out of mind :|. 8y
RanaElizabeth @kammartinez Yeah, stigma is still such a strong disincentive to seeking treatment. One of our research sites is in Vietnam and our patients hide so much from thier families. We even are providing our patients with what is basically a get out of jail free card, stating they are in treatment. 8y
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JessicaThunstromNelson
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Beautiful cover art by Sam Weber on this one. #TheWallofStorms #TheDandelionDynasty #KenLiu #SamWeber

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Louise No! No! NEVER kick the doggie-pooh! 🐾❤️ 🐶😇 8y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa True story! Not about kicking dogs, please don't do that, but about lashing out at others. 8y
kammartinez @Louise Oh no, no, never EVER kick any poor pupper (or kitty for that matter), but I do know people who'd do that (literally and metaphorically) to hurt the pupper's furparent/s :(. 8y
kammartinez @Riveted_Reader_Melissa IKR? So sad how vicious people can be to innocents when they're trying to get back at someone else :(. 8y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @kammartinez Yes, it's a very sad part of human experiences.... and very hard to explain especially to kids that someone may have yelled at you, but it really may have nothing to do with you at all, but with something else that happened earlier in the day or week that made their temper short. 8y
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This entire quote really struck me because I tend to think of writing poetry along similar lines; my metaphor was that writing a poem is like building a cathedral. That isn't too far off from the notion of poetry as engineering :).