Review: Best friends coming to terms with their families' legacies
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 10, 2012
Author Patricia Kiyono seems to have a flair for compressing enjoyable romances into a tidy novella length. Here, best friends Andy and Leigh are stretching to become something more while Andy comes to terms with his family's historic samurai legacy: two swords, a scroll, and some Japanese clothing found in an inlaid box in storage. Just as important to the story, however, is the less savory legacy of Leigh's increasingly alcoholic and abusive stepfather. A quality story with good writing, good plot, and characters deeper than the novella norm.