Title: Not Very Good
Product review: I wanted to like this first novel by T. Matsuoka. Unfortunately, I couldn't. The writing was bad, the plot was strange, and the characters were like wooden japanese puppets. The hype surrounding this new novel did not deliver. I wondered to myself if Random House invested in a pig in a poke, and then realizing that it had went all out to get people to read it. But the truth is in the sales. As I write this review, Cloud of Sparrows is somewhere in the high forty thousand range on Amazon. That says a lot about the quality of the book. I'm sorry for Mr. Matsuoka, but he needs to do better...much better.
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