In its defense, there are some really nice cultural/historical things in Risuko, that I found very interesting (I’m always fascinated by Japanese Culture).
They keep hearing and using the word “Kunoichi”, but they don’t really know what it means (they hardly know why they’re even there), and even when they do know, it doesn’t change much. Risuko and two other girls learn how to cook things, butcher animals so they can cook them, move piles of heavy stones from one place to another…Riskuo climbs things (that’s her special skill, which was pretty cool in the beginning, but then she hardly ever used it). Like, I didn’t leave much out with that one sentence. Risuko follows the story of a young girl (nicknamed Risuko) who is bought from her family by a mysterious woman (Lady Chiyome), who claims that she is training shrine maidens however, Risuko comes to find out that this isn’t entirely true.Īnd honestly, that’s what happens. I did read all the way to the end, though I was tempted to mark it as DNF, simply because not a whole lot happens. Risuko has a pleasant and mysterious tone that works well for the first third, then becomes tedious for the rest of the book. Historical adventure fiction appropriate for young adult and middle-grade readers. Yet she finds herself enmeshed in a game where the board is the whole nation of Japan, where the pieces are armies, moved by scheming lords, and a single girl couldn't possibly have the power to change the outcome. Kano Murasaki, called Risuko (Squirrel) is a young, fatherless girl, more comfortable climbing trees than down on the ground. Magical but historical, Risuko follows her along the first dangerous steps to discovering who she truly is. She is torn from her home and what is left of her family, but finds new friends at a school that may not be what it seems. Growing up far from the battlefields and court intrigues, the fatherless girl finds herself pulled into a plot that may reunite Japan - or may destroy it.
Though Japan has been devastated by a century of civil war, Risuko just wants to climb trees. My name is Kano Murasaki, but everyone calls me Squirrel. That I can be a very special kind of woman. My nation has been at war for a hundred years, Serenity is under attack, my family is in disgrace, but some people think that I can bring victory. I am from Serenity Province, though I was not born there. My name is Kano Murasaki, but most people call me Risuko. Genres: Children's, Fantasy, Historical, Middle Grade Published by Stillpoint Digital Press on June 15, 2016
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