Lynnie 
fantasy, fiction, audiobook
Imagine that you stand in line for the best
ramen in the neighborhood, but when you finally get to the front of the
line and open the door, you are instead greeted by a magical pawn shop
where you can sell your regrets. The magical pawn shop and the world
beyond Tokyo are the setting for Samantha Sotto Yamboa's Water Moon.
Perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern, Water Moon requires a leap into the unknown and the suspension of what you know to be real. I was swept away into the locations and magical elements of this book, much more than I was the relationship between the main characters Hana and Keishin, though I did like both of them. It's the world that Yamboa created, though, that fascinated me the most. A world where you can travel by puddle, and where origami is more than the paper it’s made from. It's incredibly imaginative and descriptive enough that I could picture everything, but not so flowery or descriptive that I wanted to skip over anything.
I was invested in the mystery of the story - what happened to Hana's father and can she save him, and herself, before time runs out? Can Hana and Kei overcome the future that has already been written?
I was disappointed in the ending - not because of what happened, but I felt it was just so fast. I guess I just wanted a little more.
I read the book and listened to the audiobook and I was very glad I did because I could hear how the Japanese words and names were pronounced and I could see how they were written - that was very helpful. The book was narrated by Cindy Kay & I really enjoyed her voice, her acting and her accents.
Overall this was a delightful, magical novel and I will be thinking about this hidden world behind Tokyo for a long time to come.
Perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern, Water Moon requires a leap into the unknown and the suspension of what you know to be real. I was swept away into the locations and magical elements of this book, much more than I was the relationship between the main characters Hana and Keishin, though I did like both of them. It's the world that Yamboa created, though, that fascinated me the most. A world where you can travel by puddle, and where origami is more than the paper it’s made from. It's incredibly imaginative and descriptive enough that I could picture everything, but not so flowery or descriptive that I wanted to skip over anything.
I was invested in the mystery of the story - what happened to Hana's father and can she save him, and herself, before time runs out? Can Hana and Kei overcome the future that has already been written?
I was disappointed in the ending - not because of what happened, but I felt it was just so fast. I guess I just wanted a little more.
I read the book and listened to the audiobook and I was very glad I did because I could hear how the Japanese words and names were pronounced and I could see how they were written - that was very helpful. The book was narrated by Cindy Kay & I really enjoyed her voice, her acting and her accents.
Overall this was a delightful, magical novel and I will be thinking about this hidden world behind Tokyo for a long time to come.
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