Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

Current theme: Books with things with wings on the cover.

DNF #40: Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury. When I finished When My Name Was Keoko, I said it would be a long time before I read another historical fiction book. Well turns out I'm running low on books with things with wings on the cover, so here I am with this one.

Also set during WW2, this time the story centers around Japanese characters (a Japanese family living in America). Since it was related (sort of) to When My Name Was Keoko, I was interested to see how it would be.

Set in Hawaii, the Japanese family were boat makers, but the oldest son wanted to run off and join the US army.

Unfortunately the author typed out the accents (Japanese ESL) and tried to write the dialogue in period-ways. It came off as bad movie accents to me, like stereotyping. I didn't get more than a chapter or two into the book before the dialogue made me DNF it.

DNF #41: Hawkmaiden by Terry Mancour. This book did a really boggling thing. Before the story even started, the author gave a summary of the whole plot. Why? Why spoil the story before it even started?

I tried reading it, but knowing what was coming made it feel pointless.