Follower Love Giveaway Hop

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Review: Katana

Katana
by Cole Gibsen

Paperback

384 pages
March 8th 2012 by Flux

ARC from Netgalley

Summary:

Kill Bill meets Buffy in this supernatural samurai tale.

Rileigh Martin would love to believe that adrenaline gave her the uncanny courage and strength to fend off three muggers. But it doesn’t explain her dreams of fifteenth century Japan, the incredible fighting skills she suddenly possesses, or the strange voice giving her battle tips and danger warnings. While worrying that she’s going crazy (always a reputation ruiner), Rileigh gets a visit from Kim, a handsome martial arts instructor, who tells Rileigh she’s harboring the spirit of a five-hundred-year-old samurai warrior.

Relentlessly attacked by ninjas, Rileigh has no choice but to master the katana--a deadly Japanese sword that’s also the key to her past. As the spirit grows stronger and her feelings for Kim intensify, Rileigh is torn between continuing as the girl she’s always been and embracing the warrior inside her. 

Thoughts:

I wanted to like this so much since the concept of a reincarnated female samurai is very interesting and has never been done before but sadly I do not. So since I don't think it's nice to rant so much let me just sum it in very few sentences and pictures. It goes something like this:

I was expecting a female samurai warrior..

Yeah, have you watched the Japanese movie; Azumi? She's so cool.

 

But got a skater chick instead.

With a gay best friend. Okay.. (Love you Kurt!)

Thank god for Kim or reincarnated Yoshido. (This is how I magined him..yes..oozing with hotness). Otherwise I don't think I'm able to finish this. (Huge sigh).

Recommended for: fans of kick-ass heroines who whines a lot
Verdict: 2 stars

In my Debut Author Reading Challenge

Available on: Amazon

Winners: Monthly Giveaway & Book Bully

Congrats to the winners of

Followers' Monthly Giveaway

elin

Book Bully: Abhorsen Chronicles

Sarah Bibi Setar

Phew! We love all the comments that we received this month and we do read all of them. So thanks a lot and keep it coming! 

Wishlist Wednesday # 12

Wishlist Wednesday is a wonderful meme created by the ever sweet Dani from Pen to Paper where we will post about one book per week that has been on our wishlist for some time, or just added (it's entirely up to you), that we can't wait to get off the wishlist and onto our wonderful shelves.

Ripper
by Amy Carol Reeves
Paperback
360 pages
Expected publication: April 8th 2012 by Flux

Summary:

A paranormal mystery involving London’s most notorious killer

In 1888, following her mother’s sudden death, seventeen-year-old Arabella Sharp goes to live with her grandmother in a posh London neighborhood. At her grandmother’s request, Abbie volunteers at Whitechapel Hospital, where she discovers a passion for helping the unfortunate women and children there.

But within days, female patients begin turning up brutally murdered at the hands of Jack the Ripper. Even more horrifying, Abbie starts having strange visions that lead her straight to the Ripper’s next massacres. As her apparent psychic connection with the twisted killer grows stronger, Abbie is drawn into a deadly mystery involving the murders, her mother’s shadowed past, and a secret brotherhood of immortals—who’ll stop at nothing to lure Abbie into its “humanitarian” aims.

Babble:
Oooh I love a good mystery thriller and it has one of my favourite historical setting. London! This might be a good Jack the Ripper mystery that I could sink my teeth into. Very curious about that 'humanitarian' thing.