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Risuko
Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale | David Kudler
6 posts | 6 read | 12 to read
Can One Girl Win A War? My name is Kano Murasaki, but everyone calls me Risuko. Squirrel. I am from Serenity Province, though I was not born there. My nation has been at war for a hundred years, Serenity is under attack and my family is in disgrace, but some people think that I can bring victory. That I can be a very special kind of woman. All I want to do is climb. My name is Kano Murasaki, but everyone calls me Squirrel. Risuko. ~*~ Though Japan has been devastated by a century of civil war, Risuko just wants to climb trees. Growing up far from the battlefields and court intrigues, the fatherless girl finds herself pulled into a plot that may reunite Japan — or may destroy it. She is torn from her home and what is left of her family, but finds new friends at a school that may not be what it seems. Magical but historical, Risuko follows her along the first dangerous steps to discovering who she truly is. Kano Murasaki, called Risuko (Squirrel) is a young, fatherless girl, more comfortable climbing trees than down on the ground. Yet she finds herself enmeshed in a game where the board is the whole nation of Japan, where the pieces are armies, moved by scheming lords, and a single girl couldn’t possible have the power to change the outcome. Or could she? YOUNG ADULT HISTORICAL ADVENTURE COMING JUNE, 2016!
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Tinethereader
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Currently Reading. Bye for now. I needed a break from my real life. 😋

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BraveNewBooks
Mehso-so

Cute little YA novel set in samurai-era Japan. It does a good job of evoking time and place, but I can't fully endorse books that too obviously leave the main mystery to be resolved in a subsequent book.

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youngreadrshelf
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Pickpick

Good story of young girl in medieval Japan. Looking for something for middle grade, but this was more young YA.

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youngreadrshelf
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Pickpick

Thought this one was a good YA read. Well-written. Good action and tension.

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BookAndABrew
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Pickpick

Got this as an ARC from NetGallery for an honest review. I enjoyed this a lot; more than I expected to. Risuko and other children are bought and trained to be kunouchi - assassins and spies and bodyguards. Only downside was "smirked" was used on almost every page ??

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BookAndABrew
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Getting started on my ARC of Risuko - love it so far. Risuko ('Squirrel') has been bought from her family by a cantankerous Lady and is being trained for... something. Lots of samurai, fighting and intrigue. YA.

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