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This review is from: Black Arrow (Paperback)
This is the first Sugawara novel I've read and it's so good i've ordered another 5 stories. I found as I read through the pages that I actually cared what happened to the main characters as they each faced their own personal dilemas as well as the main threat to them all. The descriptions of a chilly winter in the north of ancient Japan had me reaching for my mug of hot chocolate. A cracking good murder mystery. I look forward to receiving my other books in the post and meeting these characters again.
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series keeps getting better,
By Janet Martin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Black Arrow (Paperback)
A rich and textured novel set in 11th century Japan reveals layers of society in a period not much known by Westerners. Sugawara Akitada, a minor government official with a penchant for finding truth is sent to a far northern province to analyze accounts and serve as goveror. He immediately finds himself surrounded by intrigue and, with bodies piling up in his makeshift morgue, there plenty of immediate problems to solve. Rebelling warlords, secretive outcasts, and the sexual shenanagans of ordinary folk are almost too much for one man to manage, but Akitada threads his way through the morass and unravels the tangled mysteries. A fine read, and terrific listen!
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Brilliant Series,
By Grimgrin4488 - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Black Arrow: Sugawara Akitada Series, Book 3 (Kindle Edition)
Black Arrow is just one of a truely brilliant historical novel series. I highly recommend this book to anyone that likes samurai detective novels. Kindle is probably the easiest and cheapest way to acquire the full set.
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A GOOD PERIOD NOVEL - A NOT SO GOOD INVESTIGATING YARN,
By NeuroSplicer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Black Arrow (Paperback)
With all due respect to most of the other reviewers, I found the BLACK ARROW barely adequate.
This is the fourth book in the Sugawara Akitada series but it was the first I read - and I do understand this to be an obvious impediment. On the other hand, good novels should be able to shine on their own merit. Without risking any spoilers, I found both the triggering murder case and the underlying conspiracy to be trivial, the plot predictable and the final solution too easy and precipitating out of thin air. What is worse for any novel, there were hardly any characters to empathize with. To be fair, I have to mention that the writing does manage to convey both the serenity and the underlying brutality of 11th century Japan; to contrast the refined yet greedy nobles opposite the coarse yet (mostly) honest peasants; and to present both the easy choices of evil and the even easier ones of virtue. In the end though, it was not enough to make this book raise above mediocrity. |
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