Review: A quick, entertaining read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2013
The writing style is engaging and the adventure story is well-plotted and paced. While we don't get to know any of the characters very well, given the length of the story and the emphasis on plot, they're close enough to familiar types that it's easy to imagine their adventure and to care about what happens to them. The author includes plenty of atmospheric details about Tokyo to give a strong sense of setting.A few plot elements might have been more plausible if they had more detail. As it is, the reader has to let some important plot elements go with a handwave, which I suspect is an element of writing it to such a tight deadline.This could easily expand into a longer book or the basis for a movie plot.Because of moderately-explicit sex and violence, I probably wouldn't recommend it for somebody under 15 unless I were sure that they're not likely to be disturbed by either and I'd probably steer anybody under 12 away from it.