My review of Moon Over Tokyo by Siri Mitchell...
Posted by:
Michelle Sutton on
August 12, 2007 at
6:23PM EST
From the Publisher:
Author Siri L. Mitchell (The Cubicle Next Door) invites readers to an
exotic and mysterious land on a tender journey of self?discovery.
Though reporter Allie O'Connor has lived in Japan for two years, she
still barely copes as a foreigner. After an office romance ends badly,
she prays in her loneliness one moonlit night for a friend. Just a
friend.
Soon after this prayer she runs into Eric Larson at church, an old
classmate from high school. Eric has been assigned to the U.S. embassy
and lives in Allie's district. In school he had been a young
Republican. Allie had been a liberal Democrat. He is not the friend she
was looking for. And yet...here she is. Here he is.
Will Allie risk their fledgling friendship to find out if it can become something more?
My review:
Once again Siri Mitchell has taken me as a reader to a foreign culture.
An exotic place. Tokyo, Japan. And with that excursion came site
seeing, food, religion, economics, and a fascinating interpretation of
things in nature as seen through Japanese culture. Siri has a gift for
making the reader transport to another location somewhere in the world.
Whether it's Paris, like in Kissing Adrien, or Colorado, like in The Cubicle Next Door, or traveling Europe as in Chateau of Echoes and Something Beyond the Sky.
That is one of the things I enjoy the most about her books. And she
always has strong heroines with passion and convictions about something
whether it's the use of drinking straws, or the perils of politics.
What I enjoy most about Siri's books as evidenced in Moon Over Tokyo
as well as her other novels, is her amazing ability to draw out the
tension in a first person POV romance. I always feel like I know the
heroes even though they are only known through the heroine's
perspective and the actions she sees. She also takes friendship between
a man and a woman and draws it out until they fall in love. Her novels
are always so romantic and charming that way. She also shows the
heroine growing through her experiences and ending up deciding to
trust, to risk her heart, to try love. I've yet to read a book Siri has
written that I haven't thoroughly enjoyed. While this one had more
detail than the others, I didn't find it annoying at all, but it did
distract a bit from the tension in the story. She has her own brand,
distinctly Siri. It's always exotic, fun, deep, and littered with every
possible food unique to the culture. I'll never need to travel Europe
or Japan because I've fully experienced them already through Siri's
novels.
Moon Over Tokyo was published by Harvest House and released in July 2007.
