Sign of the Qin

by L.G. Bass

Series: Outlaws of Moonshadow Marsh (1)

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In long-ago China, Prince Zong, the mortal young Starlord chosen to save humankind from destruction, joins the twin outlaws, White Streak and Black Whirlwind, to fight the Lord of the Dead and his demon hordes.

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I read this book when I was 9 and I'm still pissed off that the sequel was never written. So pissed that I look up news of it every few years and 11 years later, write this comment. (

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OldManNick | Aug 19, 2015 |

The book started disjointedly and a bit slowly. While I enjoy a good YA fantasy, I will admit that I started the book to try to draw the interest of my voracious, but picky son, who likes martial arts and fantasy. It worked. He saw me reading it and then I couldn't get it back out of his hands.

I had to give the book back to the library, since we ran out of renewals. I've got enough else on my TBR shelf, that I don't know when this will come around again on the guitar.

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JLsBibliomania | Mar 31, 2013 |

Bass creates a wonderful tapestry of myth and legend coupled into a new story. The characters and what they represent in Chinese mythology is engaging, but the story moves along too quickly. The writing is often educational, providing a backdrop for the myth Bass is using in order to tell the story, but everything is almost a complete blur. The book should have been split into two stories relatively around the same length so that the great battle scenes and other key elements to the story could get more description and be fleshed out more. As it is, the only glaring issue with the story is that the pacing is just too fast. It would be amazing if Bass could have taken more time to expand the vast world he created through the story.-Lindsey Miller, www.lindseyslibrary.com (

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LindseysLibrary | May 14, 2009 |

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In long-ago China, Prince Zong, the mortal young Starlord chosen to save humankind from destruction, joins the twin outlaws, White Streak and Black Whirlwind, to fight the Lord of the Dead and his demon hordes.

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A volcanic eruption releases a vanguard of demons, sealed away for centuries beneath the earth. Soon after, the Emperor's first son is born, marked with the sign of the Qin-the brand of the outlaw! Could the child be the new Starlord, destined to restore justice to the land? The emperor plots to kill his only heir before the boy can usurp his throne. But the assassin is foiled by a mysterious monk whose magical tattoos foretell the future, and a trickster monkey who longs for immortality.

A host of warring guardians must ultimately unite to help the Starlord unlock the kung fu secrets of the Twelve Scrolls and save the earth from destruction. But first, the Prince must fulfill his destiny, and join the twin leaders of the legendary outlaws of Moonshadow Marsh in a war against the Lord of the Dead.

The first in a trilogy, Sign of the Qin draws upon Chinese myth and legend in a tour de force of classic storytelling.

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