Jack Fletcher, a boy that is twelve years old, gets stranded on the island of Japan after his ship is attacked by the wako, Japanese ninja pirates. The crew of the ship has been killed including his father. Jack has to learn the Japanese language and traditions, including the way of the warrior. Jack is adopted by a legendary sword master and taken to a samurai school where he starts his first steps into becoming a warrior. Will Jack become a samurai, or die trying?I picked up this book because Tracy recommended it to me.I finished this book because I love the action and the adventures that happen throughout this book. I recommend this book to Ava because she really likes action books that include martial arts and adventure. I believe the main idea of Young Samurai, Way of the Warrior is that when you lose almost everything you have, hope is still the most important thing. The story takes place in the 1600’s starting at 1609 and 1611. Almost the entire story took place in Japan, which they called the Japans. In the beginning, the story takes place on Jack’s father’s merchant ship, where dark shadows led by Dragon Eye slaughter all of the crewmembers except for Jack. After the dark shadows left, Jack was the only one alive and he realized what the shadows were after the Rutter. The Rutter was a book that Jack’s father made that charted every ocean and all of the uncharted land that some people don’t even know exists. The story was written in third person omniscient mostly from Jack’s point of view. The main character is Jack, the only survivor of the ship attack, protector of the Rutter, and samurai in training. He was rescued by Masamoto, a samurai who lost his child to Dragon Eye in years prior. Other main characters were Yamato, Akiko, and Masamoto. Yamato was the only son of Masamoto and he was Jack’s stepbrother, who called Jack, Gaigin and didn’t always treat Jack with a lot of respect. Akikio was a pretty young Japanese native girl who seemed to always be there for Jack even though nobody treated him equal like she did. Masamoto was a highly respected samurai, who took Jack in to his family because both Jack and his son that died were both related to Dragon eye. I really enjoyed this book specifically because the main character Jack was stranded, lonely, and helpless until he me Masamoto who took him in and trained him to be a samurai! Another detail that made the book great to read was the every battle scene was well written because you could picture them happening in your head. The only downside was that the book took place in Japan and it was hard to remember the names because they all sounded the same. I’ve always wanted to be an expert swordsman or a ninja so this book specially stuck out to me. Samurai mainly use swords so all of the battle scenes just made me want to keep reading even more. I would recommend this book mainly to guys who are interested in action books that are in great detail, but it might get confusing with the Japanese names. There was always a ton of action fight scenes, details, and this story was probably an 8/10 because it was hard remembering names.
What do You think about De Weg Van De Krijger (2000)?
Jack has truly learned the Way of the Warrior and is ready for the Way of the Sword.
—muku
Not much of a great read but the huge info dumps are great for my research :)
—Archer
slow start but good book till the end.......furious pace
—coolcatcarlin
