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Original Title:	Blossoms and Shadows
ISBN:	1594480036 (ISBN13: 9781594480034)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Tales of the Otori #2
Characters:	Otori Takeo, Kaede Shirakawa
Setting:	Japan

Grass for His Pillow (Tales of the Otori #2)

Lian Hearn

Paperback | Pages: 344 pages

Rating: 4.03 | 21496 Users | 640 Reviews

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Praised for its epic scope and descriptive detail, Across the Nightingale Floor, the first book in the Tales of the Otori series, was an international bestseller and critical success, named by the London Times as "the most compelling novel to have been published this year." With Grass for His Pillow, Book Two, we return to the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's creation—a land of harsh beauty and deceptive appearances.In a complex social hierarchy, amid dissembling clans and fractured allegiances, there is no place for passionate young love. The orphan Takeo has been condemned to work as an assassin—an enforced occupation that his father sacrificed his own life to escape. Meanwhile, Takeo’s beloved Shirakawa Kaede, heir to the Murayama and alone in the world, must find a way to unify the domain she has inherited, as she fights off the advances of would-be suitors and hopes against fading hope that Takeo will return to her...

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Title	:	Grass for His Pillow (Tales of the Otori #2)
Author	:	Lian Hearn
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 344 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2004 by Riverhead Books (first published August 11th 2003)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Young Adult

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Ratings: 4.03 From 21496 Users | 640 Reviews

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This read was me giving this series a second shot. After not enjoying the first book, I decided to carry as it has really good ratings here on goodreads. Unfortunately, as much as it pains me to abandon a series, especially one by an Aussie author, I will not be continuing on.I had the exact same issues with this book as I did with the first. Mainly, it was just boring. For a book about politics, warriors and war it is just so damn predictable. The writing was beautiful (as in the first) but

2017 - I am still enjoying this series more than I did the first time I read it. I never got to the final book so I am re-reading everything to prepare myself. Maybe the second reading allows me to appreciate some of the more poetic qualities of the narrative, and not get caught up in whatever elements (predictability, characterization?) irritated me the first time. It is a well-constructed story, and well-told.---------2013 - I have to admit that the ending came as a shock, not because I was

I really enjoyed this series.... Well Done.....

I liked this book well enough, though it suffered a bit from middle-book syndrome. Both main characters seemed to be immobilised by their indecision and the cliché of the Samurai killing themselves to sustain their honour was way overdone. Yet again, like its predecessor, this was a beautiful and tragic story. Although now, at the end of it I feel drained. So much grief! Maybe it also my current mood, being ill while on holiday, almost breaking my kindle, winter coming Ill hold off on the last

Really good book. Kaede really grew on me (not that I didnt like her before) and now I think she is my favorite character. Towards the end of the book I kind of stopping liking Shizuka, and Im afraid her character arc may not be what I want to see (not a bad thing, just disappointing). Takeo was cool and I liked the changes that happened to him in this book.Overall really enjoying this series so far!

After the emotional events of the first book, the two lovers in this Japanese Shogunate-ish fantasy are split up. He's on the road and she must defend her new position as the head of her household. Winter is coming, indeed, in this tragic -- and beautiful -- setting.Tone and setting are where this book shines, but the main characters have really grown into their own even if their situations are rather horrible. Or you know their situations are only going to get REALLY bad soon, anyway. :)These

This second volume in the Otori trilogy commences at the point where book 1 left off. Faced with an ultimatum from the Tribe, his biological father's people, to either join them and finish his training with them, renouncing his inheritance from his adoptive father Otori Shigeru, or else be killed, Takeo has to go with them. (Takeo's adoption into the Otori clan is later declared illegal by the self serving uncles who arranged for Shigeru's murder in any case). He then endures privations and