Binding: Paperback
Description: A 2023 Pick for Vulture | The Washington Post | Publishers Weekly | Men's Health | IGN | Polygon | Goodreads | Amazon | Nerd Daily | We Are Bookish | Paste | Books Bones & Buffy | The Escapist | Paste Magazine | Sci Fix Fantasy | Distractify | Gizmodo | Ms. Magazine | Booklist | Popsugar | Book Riot | Autostraddle | The Mary Sue & others Finalist for the American Library Association Carnegie Medal; finalist for the BSF a Award for Best Novel; finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novel; finalist for the Locus Award Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of devastating ruthlessness unseemly femininity dangerous philosophies and ungovernable gender who are ready to make history or tear it apart." This wuxia eat - the - rich tale is a knockout." Publishers Weekly starred review In the jianghu you break the law to make it your own. Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon battle axe and spear lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job. Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully - built life away. Disgraced tattooed as a criminal and on the run from an Imperial Marshall who will stop at nothing to see her dead Lin Chong is recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan. Mountain outlaws on the margins of society the Liangshan Bandits proclaim a belief in justice for women for the downtrodden for progressive thinkers a corrupt Empire would imprison or destroy. They re also murderers thieves smugglers and cutthroats. Apart they love like demons and fight like tigers. Together they could bring down an empire.
Title: The Water Outlaws
Author(s): Huang S. L.
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250847980
Pages: 528 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/7/2024
Category: Fantasy