Okay. I'll try to be as kind and heartfelt as possible. This book is insultingly bad. Normally a bad book is just that, but this book is actually infuriatingly bad.Firstly, it's a fantasy book set in feudal Japan. That's fine. I would think that it being set in Japan, Hearn would have learned any...
Potete trovare la recensione anche sul mio blog: http://lasoffittadiamelia.blogspot.it...Come sempre, la traduzione italiana è riuscita a uccidere il titolo dell'opera, sebbene le differenze che intercorressero riguardo i titoli precedenti fossero abissali. Infatti, qui ci si sbaglia di poco: "Br...
Fuihh.....makin seru aja nih cerita Lord Otori Takeo dan keluarganya. Setelah lumayan jelek di Klan Otori II dan meningkat lagi di Klan Otori III tapi dengan ending yang kurang memuaskan, akhirnya di seri IV ini semuanya terbayar. (yah walopun cape' mata n cape' tangan coz bukunya tuebell). Dibuk...
This is so sad, and very disapointing.I have loved this entire series, even more by the fact that I feel like I happened upon it myself years ago and how it seems to have a small audience. You know how it is when you have a favorite book or movie thatyou don't think anyone else knows about about ...
He bowed to the great lord from some distance and received a gracious acknowledgment, and was then summoned to the apartment of one of his senior counselors, Hosokawa no Masafusa, who was some kind of cousin to Kiyoyori’s father. Like all the Kakizuki, Masafusa lived in great luxury, wore robes o...
Her lungs were bursting. At any moment, she would open her mouth and breathe in the fatal waters of the lake. Snatches of her brief life came to her: her mother’s face, her father’s last words, her brother’s cry for help before he disappeared. She had been one of the few survivors after the massa...
Lady Tama’s eyes were narrowed and the tone of her voice was skeptical. She was trying to hide her annoyance with her husband. Masachika had returned to Matsutani, after weeks away, and had immediately thrown the household into a frenzy of activity with arrangements for the great hunt. Lord Arito...
Kaede unwrapped two robes: one old and restrained, beautifully embroidered with pheasants and autumn grasses in gold and green on ivory-colored silk; the other new, it seemed, and more flamboyant, with deep purple and blue peonies on pale pink.Hana and Ai came to admire them. Lord Fujiwara had al...