Across the Nightingale Floor
September 29th 2006 00:01
My sisters call me nipponiac, because I love anything Japanese. Heck, I'm even dishing out the five years of my uni life just studying about everything and anything in the land of the rising sun.
That's why I was happy to find this novel worthy of reading.
And, I can say that I jumped into the bandwagon before everyone else in the world did. This is book one of the Otori Trilogy, as told by the main characters Otori Takeo and Shirakawa Kaede. The story is gripping right from the very beginning, and I have virtually no bad things to say about it.
Set in feudal Japan, we mostly follow Takeo's life as he grows up as a "weak", little boy of a religious, forbidden sect called the Hidden (We get hints of what this religion is, but we wouldn't be told until the last few chapters of book 3). After witnessing his whole village massacred, and being the sole survivor of it all, he is adopted by a powerful Lord Otori Shigeru. He is then trained in the ways of some form of a super samurai x ninja (we also learn many of his life's secrets, but we're also left with a lot of holes to be filled by the second and third books).
If I say anything more, I would be ruining the little surprises and twists in the story, and we don't want that, do we? This is one of those books that are so compact in plot and character that anything else will unravel that delicious mystery Lian Hearn has managed to entwine. All I can say is, this series oh so addictive and I hope that if they ever make a film out of this series, they better do the books some justice.
I promise you, dear readers, that you won't be disappointed when you read this. Even my chick-literature-addicted sister loved it.
I rate this novel:
10/10
** Image taken from http://www.booksdirect.com.au
That's why I was happy to find this novel worthy of reading.
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
Set in feudal Japan, we mostly follow Takeo's life as he grows up as a "weak", little boy of a religious, forbidden sect called the Hidden (We get hints of what this religion is, but we wouldn't be told until the last few chapters of book 3). After witnessing his whole village massacred, and being the sole survivor of it all, he is adopted by a powerful Lord Otori Shigeru. He is then trained in the ways of some form of a super samurai x ninja (we also learn many of his life's secrets, but we're also left with a lot of holes to be filled by the second and third books).
If I say anything more, I would be ruining the little surprises and twists in the story, and we don't want that, do we? This is one of those books that are so compact in plot and character that anything else will unravel that delicious mystery Lian Hearn has managed to entwine. All I can say is, this series oh so addictive and I hope that if they ever make a film out of this series, they better do the books some justice.
I promise you, dear readers, that you won't be disappointed when you read this. Even my chick-literature-addicted sister loved it.
I rate this novel:
10/10
** Image taken from http://www.booksdirect.com.au
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I love the sites dedicated to books. I'm new to the Orble community and I'm just looking around seeing what ones I will likely continue to read.
I'm wondering in all your novel reading have you ever heard of Tim Dorsey? He's my favorite author but no one's ever heard of him it seems like. Anyway, great site.
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Aaron: Thanks sweetie! Ahhh.. Tim Dorsey? No, haven't heard of him before. I went to his site though, and the books look great. Very reminiscent of Paul Jennings books, but I have feeling that it's completely different...
I'll try to find a copy in the library =)
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