I'm not going to write a full review for this, since I've already done that a couple times and don't have much new to say. Instead, here's this quick thing: Just finished my most recent reread of this book. It's both one of my top favorite books in this series and one of my favorite books period. ...
The Twelve Kingdoms series is kind of an odd one for me - I consider it a beloved series even though most of my ratings for the individual books are 3 to 3.5 stars. I think it's the world and general setup that I like the most. That said, I genuinely love Sea of Wind. I was a little worried that t...
Poseidon of the East, Vast Blue Seas of the West is Eugene Woodbury's fan translation of the book Tokyopop translated as The Vast Spread of the Seas. It takes place 500 or so years before Youko's books, although I'd still highly recommend at least reading Youko's first book before this one. Otherwis...
[If you want a review of the story, check out my 2015 post about Tokyopop's release. This particular post is limited to comments about Woodbury's fan translation.] I wanted to read Youko's arc all in one go, so I went straight from Woodbury's translation of the first book to this one, which takes ...
I downloaded Eugene Woodbury's fan translations of the Twelve Kingdoms books ages ago but dragged my feet about reading them. For one thing, I was still holding on to the hope that Yen Press (or maybe Haikasoru?) would announce a Twelve Kingdoms license rescue. For another, Woodbury's decision to tr...
I have now finished all of the books in this series that were licensed and translated into English. If I could ask for one Tokyopop license rescue that hasn't already been announced, I'd ask for this. Ono created a fascinating world, and I'd happily read more about it.Skies of Dawn is probably the m...
Although I've previously reviewed this, I decided I'm going to write a new review for my reread.This is my least favorite book in the series, although it was less emotionally draining to read than Sea of Shadow. The fantasy aspects of the world of the Twelve Kingdoms seemed to be less on the forefro...
I loved this book when I first read it in 2010, and my recent reread of it didn't disappoint. Although I reviewed it when I first read it, I decided I'd write a brand new review for my reread because 1) my reviewing style has changed since then and 2) I had some new things to say.My first read of Se...
The Twelve Kingdoms is one of my top favorite Japanese light novel series, although it's not without its problems, and it took reading the second book and seeing the anime for me to start feeling that way. I wanted to finally read the fourth book, but it's been four years since I read the second and...
Un peu trop rapide sur la fin comparé au temps dévoué au reste. Mais cette fois encore, j'ai trouvé intéressante l'évolution du personnage principal, chez qui l'ont peut voir de véritables changements, avec acceptation de ses faiblesses aussi bien que de ses forces. A la suite des épreuves qu'elle a...
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