Historical Fiction
Across The Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori (Library))
2003·305 pages
An orphaned youth with hidden gifts is pulled into clan intrigue, destiny, and forbidden love in a feudal land of assassins.
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An orphaned youth with hidden gifts is pulled into clan intrigue, destiny, and forbidden love in a feudal land of assassins.
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This first book in a new epic trilogy has already become a best-selling sensation in England and Australia, earning comparisons to Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It begins with legend of a nightingale floor in a black-walled fortress--a floor that sings in alarm at the step of an assassin. It will take all the skills of an ancient Tribe, and all the passion of true courage, for one orphaned youth named Takeo to discover the magical destiny that awaits him...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Young romance with on-page intimacy; sexual coercion and assault threats
Violence & gore
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Massacres, assassinations, and battles with blood and on-page deaths
Profanity
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Rare mild language only
Substance use
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Occasional sake and social drinking
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQ+ representation depicted
Religious content
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Persecuted secret faith; recurring spiritual and ritual elements
Magic & witchcraft
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Supernatural Tribe abilities central to premise and character arc
Occult / demonology
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No real-world occult content
Political content
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Feudal clan warfare, succession, and political intrigue drive the plot
Self-harm / suicide
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Brief cultural references to ritual death
Abuse & suffering
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Village massacre; child trauma; sexual coercion; captivity and cruelty
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