Author: David Kudler

After having this book, and many others, sitting on my Kindle, I decided to finally work my through them starting with the ones that interested me most. I had to remind myself why I picked this up in the first place and a lot of it had to do with the setting: historical Japan.

I’ve never been there and my primary fascination with the place came through playing video games and watching anime. Still, it held an allure I couldn’t explain.

It’s a young-adult book with a young character, Risuko, who may be the key to helping win a civil war. Orphaned by her parents, she is picked up and learns there may be more to her than just a great interest in climbing. An innocence to coming-of-age character arc mixed in with light fantasy elements, political intrigue and history.

The first part of the book was a bit all over the place and I had trouble following along. However, once the action picked up, I was sucked right in and enjoyed the book to its climax.

I may come back to this series later, but there’s plenty of other books I need to get through before then.