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Mar. 15th, 2008 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburg3. The Snow Empress, by Laura Joh Rowland.
Picked this one up as part of a stack of manga in San Francisco, just at the beginning of the AOD weekend - at a discount. I can see why.
It appears to be part of a series of samurai cinema...mysteries. That's right - Sherlock Holmes meets the warring states period of Japan.
It is spare, contrived...and hokey. Also, I finished the book without throwing it across the room.
Up on the shelf, onto the next one -
Picked this one up as part of a stack of manga in San Francisco, just at the beginning of the AOD weekend - at a discount. I can see why.
It appears to be part of a series of samurai cinema...mysteries. That's right - Sherlock Holmes meets the warring states period of Japan.
It is spare, contrived...and hokey. Also, I finished the book without throwing it across the room.
Up on the shelf, onto the next one -
