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Title: Novel Idea, Fresh Voice, Plus My Hometown Baseball Team!
Review: An author is halfway home with me when she sets her story in my hometown and has the characters go to all my favorite local hangouts. This was also a very fresh idea of a Japanese hero, who is a baseball pitcher for our nationally renowned team, and his female interpreter from our local university. I learned a lot about the problems a Japanese person carries around from his heritage regarding picking a spouse. An American does not have the same problems. Nevertheless, this novel is a bit rough around the edges and falls into romantic cliché traps here and there, especially with the overly innocent, virginal heroine. This is a new author, however, trying to open up a whole new area of interracial romance and she succeeds more than she doesn't. I wish there were a 3.5 star category because that is more precisely where this novel ranks with a grade. This would probably make a very popular movie.
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