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La Figlia Della Spada (2014)

by Steve Bein(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8834726030 (ISBN13: 9788834726037)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Fanucci

series

Fated Blades

review 1: An undiscovered gem, blending a crime mystery with historical fiction, with some fantasy elements. Mariko is a female detective on the elite Tokyo Metro Police Department, has spent her formative years in the U.S., and has a meth addict sister. Her boss wants her out of Narcotics, and assigns her to look into an attempted robbery of a blind man, instead of pursuing a hot lead regarding a rogue yakuza trying to import cocaine in contravention of their bushido code. Mariko is a modern woman, but becomes a student of the blind but wise sensei, scholar, swordmaster. Of course, the two stories come together along with the murder of a policewoman, all centering on some mystical swords forged by a master craftsman some nine hundred years in the past. Some of the historical s... moreegues are distracting, but the last one explains much.
review 2: Awesome book! I highly recommend this one to anyone with an interest in sword fighting, the samurai life, Japanese history, and police procedurals. Very well written, told from the perspectives of a sword's owners throughout history interspersed with a modern day tale of a police woman fighting to save it and destroy another, possessed sword. The historical parts are very well handled, explaining just enough so the reader understands what is going on, while never becoming pedantic or boring. There are sword fights, samurai and the way of Bushido, cops, criminals and a psycho killer.... and you're guaranteed to want to keep turning pages long into the night. I am baffled by those who were confused by the jumps in time within the story. It was the easiest thing in the world to keep straight what time period you were reading about, especially given as that was clearly stated at the start of the chapter! less

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