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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) |
J.Y. Yang
Paperback | Pages: 236 pages Rating: 3.78 | 5662 Users | 1095 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorate #1) |
| Author | : | J.Y. Yang |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 236 pages |
| Published | : | September 26th 2017 by Tor.com |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. LGBT. Novella. GLBT. Queer |
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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 FortuneMokoya 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?
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Ratings: 3.78 From 5662 Users | 1095 ReviewsCriticize Appertaining To Books The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorate #1)
Set in a richly imagined world, JY Yangs first part in their Tensorate series is evocative, bold, and dreamlike. I wanted to be more emotionally wrapped up in the story, though, because I liked so many of the ideas so much, and I love when my head and my heart are equally engaged when Im reading. But theres plenty here to keep me wanting to learn more of what happens in the tumultuous Protectorate Yang created.The saying goes, The black tides of heaven direct the courses of human lives. To which a wise teacher said, But as with all waters, one can swim against the tide.'Welcome to a world of silkpunk, twin bonding and the Slack! This review is about J.Y. Neon Yang's 2017 novella The Black Tides of Heaven. Spoilers follow!So What's It About?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
This is one of the first novels I can recall reading where the author uses the pronoun they to indicate non-gender specificity. At first I found this quite disconcerting, but once youve wrapped your mind around it, it becomes just another novum in a fantasy novel.Speaking about novums: On the first page, when Head Abbot Sung of the Grand Monastery begins climbing the 800 stairs to the Great High Palace of the Protectorate, Yang remarks: Tradition dictated that the journey to the palace be
I 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
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 novel
4.5⭐WOWCan you go wrong with an Asian inspired fantasy? I ask stupid questions sometimes. I dont think Ive ever read anything quite like this before. It was fantastic.
My Video Review:https://youtu.be/lGylZwlX2FkWow this was so good! I really liked the society and how everything was set up. Akeha was such a great character to read about, and I liked the dynamic between Akeha and Moko. Their abilities were awesome and I loved the magic system. The Slack was really cool and I liked that the twins could communicate through it instead of talking out loud when they wanted. Also, in this world, people do not immediately have a gender assigned to them. They confirm
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