Review: Good Background But Not as Good a Mystery
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2014
This short book, more of a novella, is a prequel to the first and second books of Ten, although I read it after those two.  As that, it gives background to Ten's life when he was still a monk, and offers insight to his attitudes later in life.  For that reason, it was worth reading, but it didn't have the appeal of the other two Tenzing Norbu books I've read.  There was a little too much Buddhism philosophy for me, although I enjoyed the amount in the other two books, and it moved just too slowly for a mystery.  Still, I'm a fan of this series, and will read The Third Rule of Ten when I get a chance.