Title: What happened??
Product review: I don't like to read spy novels. I like mysteries that center around a cultural component. I liked the constant references to culture and history that were important elements of Massey's other books. This book just reads as a very very bad spy novel. The book is just corny and colored with silly statements, like "super secret spy agency" and "Rei, you're the chosen one", that make the book even more ridiculous. I'm a big fan of Sujata Massey, but I think she really made a wrong turn in choosing to change Rei Shimura's adventures so drastically. I barely made it through Typhoon Lover because of the "spy" element. Rei is an antiques dealer not a super agent. Even her moonlighting as a PI would have been more believable than her as an agent for a "top secret" agency. I cannot express how terribly disappointed I was with this book. It's the worst in the series.
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