
Trust me, you’ll want to pre-order this book right now. I honestly didn’t expect to love this book that much but I was madly engrossed by every page. Wang is currently the fourth self-published book that I’ve rated with a full 5 stars. Fletcher, We Ride the Storm by Devin Madson, and Never Die by Rob J. If you’ve been following my reviewing progress, then you probably know that I like to keep and show my personal stats and facts on books I’ve read and reviewed. This book came out of nowhere and it totally stole my heart. It’s fucking amazing!” as my entire review. This is one of those books where I just want to write “Please buy it and read it.

As of this moment, The Sword of Kaigen has become not only one of the four best self-published books I’ve ever read, but also my personal number one favorite self-published book. I have a Booktube channel now! Subscribe here!ĪRC provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.ĥ stars from start to finish for this exceptional Japanese-inspired military fantasy standalone. But with her growing son asking questions about the outside world, the threat of an impending invasion looming across the sea, and her frigid husband grating on her nerves, Misaki finds the fighter in her clawing its way back to the surface. Determined to be a good housewife and mother, she hid away her sword, along with everything from her days as a fighter in a faraway country. Misaki told herself that she left the passions of her youth behind when she married into the Matsuda house.

Worse, the empire he was bred to defend may stand on a foundation of lies. But when an outsider arrives and pulls back the curtain on Kaigen’s alleged age of peace, Mamoru realizes that he might not have much time to become the fighter he was bred to be. For hundreds of years, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held the Empire’s enemies at bay, earning their frozen spit of land the name ‘The Sword of Kaigen.’īorn into Kusanagi’s legendary Matsuda family, fourteen-year-old Mamoru has always known his purpose: to master his family’s fighting techniques and defend his homeland. High on a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful warriors in the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire? Or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies even reach their shores?


A mother struggling to repress her violent past,Ī son struggling to grasp his violent future,Ī father blind to the danger that threatens them all.
