Book Review: Grass for His Pillow, Tales of the Otori Book 2

Grass for His Pillow by Lian Hearn

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This second book of the series, Grass for His Pillow, Tales of the Otori starts slowly, like breathing in preparation for meditation. Takeo and Kaede's narratives are told in detail against the background of an impending war. There is turmoil and tension happening within Takeo and Kaede as well as the world in which they live in. It ends abruptly though, this careful description of building chaos internally and externally that it left me yearning for more of Hearn's beautiful and tragic narration of love lost and found.

I couldn't help but think that the amazing and most terrible moments of Kaede and Takeo's journey are all packed in book three. Nonetheless, it has all the troupes of romance that I truly love: a prophecy, dalliances, a revelation, a great big war and the folly of youth.

How will Takeo and Kaede redeem themselves in the third book?



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