Girl In a Box

by Sujata Massey

ONE LINE SUMMARY: Rei returns to Japan to work for a high-end department store with questionable finances.

I’ll be honest. I hated Massey’s last Rei Shimura book, The Typhoon Lover, and almost didn’t check out this one when I spotted it at the library. But I’m glad I gave Massey another chance, because this book is back on track with the others in the series.

If I could do it again, I would simply have skipped the last book. All you need to know is: Rei breaks up with Hugh. Rei is recruited by some kind of American intelligence agency. And then I would have gone straight to this book.

Most of the books in this series have Rei doing things that simply don’t sound like things a real person would do (if there’s danger and she’s been warned away from it, she’ll be there…and without backup, even when backup’s available). And you just have to accept that for whatever reason, an intelligence agency would actually see Rei as an asset. But the plots are interesting, and I love getting a glimpse of Japan through Rei’s eyes.

Posted by: Supersonic Jane | December 4, 2006 | 11:59 am
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