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Review title: It takes 300 pages to get interesting.
Product review: This book is incredibly wordy and redundant. It had a typical "mystery" beginning where a character has an attempt made on his life, and his bodyguards and protectors keep him in the dark as much as possible throughout the rest of the novel. In most stories the character manages to piece together some information about the attempt on his own life. Not in this book, however, as nothing is revealed until 300 pages into the story. Prior to that we get a diary of an individual who is conducting a rather lengthy and boring cultural study of a wanna-be feudal Japan. Also, the ending never had a full, final explanation to what was going on. In short, this book was short on action and heavy on cultural didactic, and, as a result, it was extremely boring.
