Coleshōgun blog post 5.

I would not say I enjoyed reading this book. But, I would recommend it to anyone interested. I would say that the main reason for not liking it was that I had to pick it apart, and THINK about what I was reading instead of powering through the bad parts, silly, or racist parts, and I could focus on the parts that, while not integral to the plot, were good writing. The main problem I had with the book was Blackthorn. He was just too much. Any real person in his position would have died on almost every other page.  Any real person in his position would not have run into so many sympathetic, European language speaking people. From the priest was there when he washed up, to the priest who he happened to be jailed with, to the beautiful woman who came to live in his house and so on. It's just unrealistic. Also, the characters take instantaneous likings to Blackthorn, and I could go on. Forgetting Blackthorn somehow for a moment, the book was good, the book was bad, overall I would have enjoyed it if I didn't have to.