At this point, I wouldn’t recommend the Thier Bright Ascendacy series, having not liked The Tiger’s Daughter at all and having only a middling response to this one. When not managing a nutritional supplement store in Brooklyn, K is an avid participant in the roleplaying community, from which she drew inspiration for her debut novel, The Tiger’s Daughter.
But Rivera can turn a sweet phrase, offering some lovely single lines or segments of description. K Arsenault Rivera was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, but moved to New York when she was a toddler. I still don’t find either story as told or the characters as presented particularly compelling, while pacing, POV, structure, and the over-wrought romance elements have been obstacles more often than not. The question of cycles of gods and demons and ascendancy may actually be the most interesting facet for me at this point.
On the one hand, I quite like the mythology that underlies much of the story even if it still feels a bit amorphous. Beyond plot, character, and pacing, I had mixed feelings about the worldbuilding. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of the Shades of Magic series Once they were the heirs to a prophecy that predicted two women would save an empire. The novel starts slowly, and I almost gave it up several times in the first 100-150 pages.but things did pick up at about the halfway point as Shizuka moves more into the story of her being forced into the role of General by her uncle, tasked with leading what her uncle hoped would be a suicidal march into the north against land controlled by demons. K Arsenault Rivera's second novel, The Tiger's Daughter, the continuation of a new epic fantasy trilogy 'Rich, expansive, and grounded in human truth.simply exquisite.V.
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