It takes a while for the story to get going, but once it does it never lets up. The story itself is intriguing and exciting, all high fantasy and queer YA in a non-Western setting. With a start like this I can’t wait to see where the rest of the series will go. Julia Ember’s The Tiger’s Watch is the first novella in the Ashes of Gold series. But an inhabitor’s bond to their animal is for life-if Katala dies, so will Tashi. Katala slaughters Xian’s soldiers, leading the enemy to hunt her. Though Tashi grapples with their decision, their volatile bonded tiger doesn’t question her allegiances. When their spying unveils that everything they’ve been taught is a lie, Tashi faces an impossible choice: save their country or the boy they’re growing to love. In front of his men, Xian seems dangerous, even sadistic, but Tashi discovers a more vulnerable side of the enemy commander-a side that draws them to Xian. But the invading army turns the monastery into a hospital, and Tashi catches the eye of Xian, the regiment’s fearless young commander. When the capital falls after a brutal siege, Tashi flees to a remote monastery to hide. “ Sixteen-year-old Tashi has spent their life training as a inhabitor, a soldier who spies and kills using a bonded animal.
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