Review: Another great adventure!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2014
As “the deadliest assassin of the underworld,” Sly is a wonderful character: exciting, extremely dangerous, and often unpredictable. I love the faced-paced plot and all the action! In this book, Sly’s conflict with the Yakuza in Tokyo feels especially tense, maybe because of the frequent contrasts between the peaceful and beautiful settings (such as “the immaculate garden with soft light and statues of deities”)  and the violent action that takes place there.The plot is great, but I also really appreciate Vardan Partamyan’s attention to descriptive details that set the scenes so well. Here are a few of my favorite phrases: “ the soldiers arrived in screeching chaos of a dozen atom-mobiles,” “a grotesque tangle of bleached bones,” “the silent autumn garden filled with the melancholy of a summer lost.”  Five stars!