This took me a long time to finish, mostly because I got bored about a quarter of the way through. Luckily the book picks up again around the half-way point and things start to get really interesting. I wasn’t too keen on the pseudo-Japanese world, I think I would have liked to better if it was just...
This wasn't bad at all. I think I want to read book 2. I had a few issues with it but I think it had to do with my own ethnocentric views about the culture. I totally get the entire loyalty thing, the submissive nature between servant (which is everyone but the lords) and the Lords, and the whole cl...
I'm really not sure what I think of this book. The writing is a little too sparse and simplistic. Which would work if the author had a way with words. She doesn't. The romance is almost a non event and the main characters are a little too unblemished. Can we please have a hero that naturally learns ...
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn had been sitting on my to read shelf for a little over a year. Having finally succumbed and read the book I was not let down by the superb storytelling on offer. The world is familiar and yet at the same time distant, the characters are beautifully rendered...
Set in a world based on feudal Japan, Across The Nightingale Floor is the story of a boy who grows up in a small village as one of the Hidden, a religious cult that their overlord, the cruel and ruthless Iidu, has decided to persecute.The story begins with the central character returning to his vill...
I really enjoyed this book and found it hard to put down. The story was engrossing and I found the main characters likable, and it's nice to read a fantasy story in an eastern culture for a change.The reason for so few stars was really the fact that it concluded by doing the opposite of every single...
For me, Across the Nightingale Floor is the best of the Otori books, simply because that is where I fell in love with the incredible world Lian Hearn has created. Her characters are so realistic, genuinely flawed and honest. This series definitely falls into the category of "epic".It's not a light...
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