shinigami takamagahara monogatari book 2 xia xia lake

'Xia Xia Lake' is coming from Xia's wattpad account: 'xiaxiala' which after 2 beers on a late Friday night Xia had the brilliant idea to transform it in an unpronounceable pen name. Xia is a pen name coming from the Greek 'Xenia', meaning “welcoming,” “stranger,” or “guest,” and is pronounced Zia or Csia (like in Alexia), however everybody calls her Zaya. Xia currently lives in Bucharest with her husband and two giant Bucovina Shepherd Dogs. In 2017, she took two months vacation from work and with the help of Kogitsune, she dusted off her school books and began writing as a method of stress relief.This is how the Takamagahara Monogatari was born. At twenty years old, she got hired in an IT corporation, where she spent the next decade forgetting everything she ever learned in school, including the Japanese language. She was a student at the Bucharest University of Foreign Languages, Japanese Major - English Minor, where she fell in love with Japanese History and Ancient Literature.

Blog Tour: Serafino da Ferrara by Paolo G.Xia Xia Lake decided a couple of years ago that she wanted to spend her free time writing stories about mythologies.

Book Review: Lost Frontier by Martine Carlsson.New Release Blitz: Wake The Dead by Sophie Whittemore.I very much look forward to reading further novels in the series.

Shinigami is a beautifully written and moving novel, which I cannot recommend enough. You really feel for these characters and the struggles that they are facing. The romance happens gradually and at a natural pace that never once feels rushed or false. Time is taken to set each scene and describe every detail in a way that draws you into this wonderful world that the author has created. Like the first novel, Shinigami combines a mixed of folklore, history and religion to create a uniquely beautiful tale. Over the years their friendship turns into a forbidden love that will shape the course of Hiro’s destiny. Shinigami begins when a young compassionate Hiro takes pity on a starving boy and from his kindness a bond between them is forged. I don’t want to say too much about the historical Fujiwara no Hirotsugu as it would spoil some plot elements, but he was a real person and I liked how the author incorporated this into their work. As with the first book in the series, Shinigami draws Japanese religion and folklore into its stories as well as the life of Fujiwara no Hirotsugu. Shinigami is the second novel in the Takamagahara Monogatari series. *I received this novel for free in exchange for an honest review*

While he battles to find his own path, Hirotsugu finds solace in a boy who will become his secret friend, then his salvation, and then as they become adults together, the love of his life. The human world meets the yōkai in a power struggle for the fate of Fujiwara no Hirotsugu. A coming-of-age love story between an orphan and the heir of the richest family in the Land of Yamato.

Shinigami takamagahara monogatari book 2 xia xia lake