• scytale@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    Extending a series that is supposed to be one-and-done usually doesn’t end up well, so I hope they manage to pull it off.

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      I don’t know whaly every one keeps saying that there was only one book. Clavell wrote 6 books that all have these same characters in it.

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        What? I thought the rest of the ‘Asia saga’ was rather loosely connected and nothing was a direct sequel to shogun

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          Alright. I looked into it much deeper. There’s character development between some of the books, and they all come back in Noble House. But the Shogun book literally ends with a big cliffhanger, all the build up to a war…and then nothing. 😆

          Apologies, you are correct.

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    That’s good, even if the first book kinda just stop there, I think it is worth it showing the ascension to Shogun proper.

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      There is a sequel of sorts. But it’s set 200 years later in Hong Kong