Title: Non stop bloodletting
Product review: I am a great fan of historical fiction set in Japan and China, and have read many excellent books of that type. This one is a disappointment. It is one violent scene after another, with a body count that must be measured in the thousands. The "heroes" -- to use the term loosely -- are all coldhearted murderers. One's culture doesn't change that fact. Are we to admire them? Like them? Understand them? I could not, and therefore was left with reading about people who merely went from one bloody scene to another.The book is sadly lacking in real insights into the Japanese culture of that age -- there is far more depth to it than mere barbaric Samurai blood thirst. If the author's intention was to show us how horrid Japan was at that time, he succeeded. But if the book had been written by a Westerner, the author would have been called a racist for such a one-sided depiction of Japanese culture and life.All in all, not a book I can recommend.
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