Review: Amusing, and Instructive
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 16, 2013
It's very hard to create a doofus hero who is both amusing and sympathetic. It's very hard to do it in the first person, because the doofus hero basically has to goof on himself even though he's not in on the joke.Here's an example:  "After I got [my Samurai sword] I didn't know what to do with it - kind of like my last girlfriend."  That line's funny on a couple of levels, and it's revealing, and it already has you sort of rooting for this guy. That's quite an achievement. Coupled with that, the author keeps you off balance with the secondary characters he introduces, and zigs and zags a bit with the story, so that you can't quite anticipate what's going to happen next. All of that is a bit unusual for a story like this, and much appreciated by this reader.So, I enjoyed the story and I admired the skill and restraint the author brought to the enterprise. Struck me as a very accomplished effort.Please note that I found this book while browsing Amazon Kindle freebies. I have no connection at all to the author or the publisher of this book.