David Kudler
Autore di Risuko
Serie
Opere di David Kudler
White Robes: An Interesting Army (Seasons of the Sword Prequel) (Kunoichi Companion Tales Book 1) (2016) 6 copie
A Man and His God 1 copia
A Favorite Son 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- unknown
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Recensioni
Liste
Best Young Adult (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 14
- Utenti
- 168
- Popolarità
- #126,679
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 20
- ISBN
- 10
Risuko, along with Emi and Toumi, are picked up by Lady Chiyome and taken to Mochizuki where the girls become novices and begin training to be kunoichi. The characterization is simplistic, with the author falling back on generalizations in character rather than creating fully fleshed-out people. Toumi (along with junior initiates Mai and Shino) are mean girls. Emi is the quiet one. And Risuko is the headstrong willful one who is too curious and smart for her own good. Even the more dominant background characters seem bit one-dimensional in characterization. Kee Sun, for example, is one who gets a lot of space in the book, but other than being Korean, dedicated to food, and jolly with a bit of a temper, there's not much to glean from him. Hopefully, this is something that is rectified in the second book.
There's a whiff of "chosen one" to this story. Of course Risuko is a skilled climber, which becomes plot relevant many times. Of course Risuko is smart and clever.
That all said, I did really enjoy this book. The plot moves a bit slowly, and other readers may get bored with the day-to-day life of Mochizuki (it does devolve at times with this happened, and then this, and the this). Others may enjoy it as it is nice worldbuilding and lets the reader learn what it was like in one of the centers that trained elite warriors. There is also enough hints of Risuko's larger purpose that I'm extremely intrigued where Kudler takes the character.
Readers who already enjoy Tamora Pierce and similar authors would enjoy this. I'm looking forward to the second book.
Review copy courtesy of the publisher via NetGalley.… (altro)