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Tangled Spirits
Paperback
FantasyGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.99
Publisher: Roav Press
Published: Apr 27 2022
Pages: 382
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Kate Shanahan skillfully blends fictional and historical figures and events into this captivating time-slip tale of magic, imperial intrigue, and a friendship that spans a thousand years.
...a heartwarming glimpse into the Heian period of Japan and its mythology. - Historical Novel Society
For anyone unfamiliar with court life in ancient 10th century Japan... this is the book to read. - Historical Fiction Company
2019: Mina Cooper hopes her study-abroad program in Japan will solve her anxiety and friendship issues. After all, she's doing what she loves, studying Japanese language and literature. But she's still waking up at four am with a racing heart, so Mina decides to do something big, something very unlike her.
999: Desperately lonely after her mother and sister die in an epidemic, aspiring shaman Lady Masako attempts to summon them. But she's inexperienced in such rituals, and pulls Mina's spirit into her body instead.
After a struggle for control and a failed exorcism, the two spirits agree to cooperate long enough to get help from the Royal Astrologer, the only person powerful enough to send Mina home.
But his help comes at a cost. If Mina doesn't pay it, she risks her spirit fusing with Masako's. And if that happens, she'll never get home.
Readers have this to say about Tangled Spirits
Mina's journey in Tangled Spirits is the ultimate study-abroad experience, one that will excite and delight many a Japanophile reader. With the unique yet somehow intuitive idea of placing two characters in the same body, plus a dash of spirituality and time travel, it makes the most of its weird and wonderful premise to deliver a story that not only entertains but also has the potential to introduce Heian Japanese history to a new audience and touch readers with a story of friendship not quite like any they've read before.
This tale captivated me from start to finish.
The idea of two people, with totally different life experiences, inhabiting the same body and learning to 'live' together was fascinating, humorous at times and poignant at others.
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