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Title: The Samurai's Wife by Laura Joh Rowland ISBN: 0-312-97448-5 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Exciting reading
Comment: I enjoyed this book. It held my attention and I could hardly put it down.
Rating: 2
Summary: It's getting to be too much!
Comment: This is the fifth or sixth Sano Ichiro book that I read. The only reason that I keep coming back is the futile hope that perhaps the next one will be different. But it is not. The characters in these books have a one-dimensional comic book quality that does not change or mature with age. The antagonism between Sano and the Chamberlain gets to be boring after so many absurd confrontations. The evolution of plot and detective work is always pathetically arbitrary. The only saving grace is what to the reader appears as an interesting view and description of 17th century Japan.
Rating: 5
Summary: Even better!
Comment: When I read Shinju, the first book in this series, I thought I was reading a very good account of life in feudal Japan. So I continued the series. My library didn't carry The Concubine's Tattoo and the Way of the Traitor, so I skipped from Bundori to this book.
Laura Joh Rowland has taken something good and made it even better. Always, Sano Ichiro is plagued by issues with his honor and loyalty to Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. His rival, Chamberlain Yanagisawa is still trying to destroy him. He has another life and death mission to finish. And now he has a fiery, headstrong wife, Reiko-chan, at his side. Things don't look good for Sano Ichiro.
Heian Kyo, now known as Kyoto, or merely Miyaki, is a world stuck in the past. Hundreds of years previously, the Japanese Emperors ruled Japan from this spot. Since then, the capital has moved to Kamakura, and now Edo (now Tokyo). It is a world living on a pension from the bakufu (government). It is a world suspended in the relics and traditions of the past. It is a place where a dastardly murder has occurred.
The Samurai's Wife is a high-flying adventure through ancient Japan. I suggest you get this book. You'll never put it down.
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Title: The Way of the Traitor by Laura Joh Rowland ISBN: 0061010901 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Bundori by Laura Joh Rowland ISBN: 0061011975 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Concubine's Tattoo by Laura Joh Rowland ISBN: 0312969228 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Black Lotus by Laura Joh Rowland ISBN: 0312979584 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria by Laura Joh Rowland ISBN: 0312983786 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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