Joseph Aldred: Tokiro, the Yokai, Gebunden

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The world ended when monsters tore their way into reality.

Fourteen-year-old Tokiro has spent his life hearing stories about the Yokai War. He never imagined he would become part of one.

Years after the war devastated civilization, humanity is slowly rebuilding among the ruins of the old world. In the barony of West Linn, Tokiro and his closest friends explore abandoned places, dream about the future, and try to live ordinary lives in a world that is anything but ordinary.

Until one day, everything changes. What Tokiro encounters will force him to confront a truth far more terrifying than the monsters in the old stories. And surviving it may cost him everything.

Meanwhile Mason-brother to West Linn's ruler-has made a discovery of his own. Strange crystalline residue left behind when the monsters entered this world appears to contain extraordinary power. Mason believes he can use it to heal what the war destroyed. But the residue isn't simply a source of power. It is a remnant of something else. Something that came through the same breach in reality as the monsters. And Mason is beginning to understand that the Yokai War may not have been the end of anything.

It may have been the beginning.

As Tokiro's life spirals into a nightmare he could never have imagined, Mason's search for knowledge threatens to unleash forces that humanity was never meant to understand. Two people. Two paths. One toward salvation. The other toward something waiting beyond the vortex. And somewhere between them, a boy will discover that sometimes the greatest danger isn't the monster hunting you.

It's the monster in you.

Tokiro, the Yokai is a dark fantasy adventure blending Japanese folklore, post-apocalyptic survival, supernatural horror, and coming-of-age tragedy.

The war is over.

The monsters are not.