Negative Positive
Title: Save your money
Review: I read the first book in this series, and rather enjoyed dipping into an era not commonly written about. I read The Concubine's Tatoo, and really can't recommend it, or the series now. Part of the pleasure of reading historical mysteries is that willing suspension of disbelief that takes one deep into another era. This series doesn't have that, for me. I really can't believe there would have been a couple like this in Tokugawa Japan, so my attention wanders. And, I regret to say, Reiko is getting on my nerves after only two or three books. I really wanted to like this series, but it eludes me.
Is the review positive or negative? 