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• I find that I need to “like” the characters in a mystery series and Sana Ichiro and his wife Lady Reiko are very engaging and intriguing characters, so the books are more enjoyable to me.
• This is more than a mystery but a very good period literature – the combination of the mystery with real events – in this case the devastating earthquake of 1703 – with the description of the Japanese feudal society is interesting and informative.
• Enjoyed how I learned about the culture/history without it s ...more
• This is more than a mystery but a very good period literature – the combination of the mystery with real events – in this case the devastating earthquake of 1703 – with the description of the Japanese feudal society is interesting and informative.
• Enjoyed how I learned about the culture/history without it s ...more
I ordered this book due to a recommendation of new mysteries either on Oprah or B&N. What a disappointment. after putting my rating on Goodreads, I saw the book was #16 in a series on the detective Sano. I will not be reading the 15 before this or the 17th. one of my difficulties with this book was that the descriptions of the destruction from the earthquake was repeated over and over from different characters. The characters may have been different but the descriptions were eerily the same. wha
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