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Title: Dancing Blades

Subtitle: A Seventeen Series Short Story #2

Author: AD Starrling

Narrator: Michael Bower

Format: Unabridged

Length: 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-14-17

Publisher: AD Starrling

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Join Lucas Soul on his quest to become a warrior.

Edo period, 1624. Japan.

When hunted half-breed immortal Lucas Soul hears tales of legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto, he sails to Japan to convince the great man to take him on as an apprentice.

Musashi refuses to agree to his request, leaving Soul with no option but to shadow the samurai and repeatedly challenge him to duel in the hope of proving his worth. But things takes a sinister turn when Soul stumbles upon a plot that threatens the life of Musashi's son.

Can the immortal rescue the young man and change the master's mind?

Dancing Blades is a short story set in AD Starrling's supernatural thriller series Seventeen. If you like high-octane adventures that combine science and fantasy, then you'll love the world of Seventeen.

Get this gripping short story and continue the epic series today!

Members Reviews:

Seventeen prequel

Lucas Soul trying to convince a renown samarai to teach him the way of the sword to avenge the death of his parents and to keep himself alive to fight another day.

Must read

Awesome. If you like fighting it's all in here. Great book

Great novella!

Okay, I'm liking these novellas a lot! Dancing Blades was an entertaining read and super short (much to my dismay!). While First Death was about young Soul running for his life after his parents were murdered, Dancing Blades is about Soul trying to convince the greatest samurai to train him.

Soul is older now, but stuck looking like a young man since he's an immortal and doesn't age. He is wiser though and I liked that he's focused on getting better at fighting to survive any circumstance that may present itself. It was nice that this character has a bit of humour inside left since I thought he would be more dark and serious. His antics of trying to convince the samurai to train him were amusing, and I loved how when he least tried to convince him, it's when it finally worked.

Now I'm off to check out the next novella! It's so exciting that I'm finally getting closer to the first full-length novel, Soul Meaning, because by the looks of it, the Seventeen series will be amazing!

Review by Kate Tilton

This has to be one of my favorite short stories to date. We meet Soul as a child in First Death in a beautifully written, heart-breaking story. In Dancing Blades we see Soul as a relatively young man on a quest to learn from one of the greatest swordsman of all time, Musashi Miyamoto. This story is a quick read with an excellent blend of Japanese history, humor, and solid characters. The relationships that develop between Soul, Musashi, and Musashiâs son lead to many moments where I broke out in a grin or a laugh. If you are not reading ADâs books yet, you need to be.

I received this book in exchange for an honest review.

Awesome backstory

This is the second novella in the Seventeen series, and Lucas is a bit older now, he is out on his own traveling around looking for the best people to train him to stay alive. Because he knows he is the most hated of all beings a abomination of both his dead mother's and father's people.

This is another wonderful novella and an awesome audio narrated by Michael Bower. Michael Bower made the audio awesome with his command of the characters and their attitudes. His use of different voices for each character is wonderful.