A review by farmer_annie
The Mask Carver's Son by Alyson Richman

1.0

I found this to be a pretty lame and unconvincing story. Also it's quite uncomfortable how values typically seen as eastern or Japanese, like duty to family, avoiding conflict, and upholding tradition are juxtaposed with 'western' individualism. It feels a lot like there's an underlying Eurocentric message that western lifestyles at the time were clearly better in some way.
I never did care about the main character (or any others).
The editing issues/typos were annoying too.