A review by pearseanderson
The Tengu's Game of Go by Lian Hearn

3.0

Hearn's writing really confuses me. Not only how much information and summary comes at me, but why she skims over certain sections but not others. The action scenes in this book were really bad. To build up certain things for so long only to shut them down kills me, disappoints me. But then to add other strange paragraphs about mostly meaningless histories or names of unnecessary characters creates a contrast I don't like. If I had to do it over, would I listen to the entire Tale of Shikanoku? I don't know. And that's telling in itself. I expected more. Although there were some great moments, I was never too excited to listen to this audiobook epic.