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Re: 5 PHs left

[(Anonymous)]

why did you hate it?

/purely curious, I have almost no knowledge of it

Re: 5 PHs left

[(Anonymous)]

It takes place in a kind of fantasy Japan (the protagonist is a ninja in training), but it treats the setting as fun window dressing rather than a living, breathing culture. A lot of the characters are persecuted "Christians", which is a thing that happened in Japan sure, but at the time I was really frustrated in finding a book series about fantasy Sengoku that went out of its way to makes its protags as white-seeming as possible. I know the author studied in Japan but it felt to me that you could have changed just the character/place names and you'd never know it wasn't a run of the mill western fantasy, other than they eat a lot of rice.

It's been 20 years so I don't remember the plot so well, other than I hated that too. There's a really flat het romance that's underdeveloped and goes nowhere. The event the book built up to passed without much fanfare. I never finished the trilogy.

But maybe the sequel is better? Hahaha, not helping the case of this pinch hit, sorry!

Re: 5 PHs left

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

Thanks for the explanation! I was worried it was something like that. I guess it's mildly interesting to see if the author got better about that later in the series... Harsh Cry of the Heron is available through my library so I might put a reserve on it, but that won't work for claiming it now. (Could help if whoever picks up the PH bails later in the year.)