This added an extra layer to Misaki who lives in a constant struggle between these two parts of her life that I absolutely loved to read about. It doesn't matter all that much what Misaki could do or who she was before she got married and had her children, as long as she was a good wife/mother. If you've ever seen a Japanese / samurai inspired works of entertainment that are trying to be accurate then you can tell that there are very specific gender roles to each one of them which the author brought into this story.
While reading the book, I got the big image that the author was trying to be as close to the culture she was writing about as much as possible, which made the above discussed themes alongside gender equality have a bigger weight behind them than what I originally expected. The book discusses family, duty and power from the eyes of Misaki and her son Mamoru, what it means to belong to the Matsuda family, what it means to wield the power that they do and the duty that comes with both of those. I came into it knowing that it's an Asian inspired setting with a mother and son as the main point of views in the book, and it gave me that with so much more. I read several books in April that I consider excellent, and The Sword of Kaigen easily joins them as a contender for best of the month.
TL DR: this book is incredible, give it a go!
First time posting any of my reviews on the sub before, but I’m still a bit excited!ĭisclaimer: I urge you to take a few minutes and check out the synopsis on Goodreads before moving forward as it’s a long one to include here (I strive to be spoiler free, but might include few things from the synopsis) and this is one of my longer reviews as is, thank you.
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