Across The Nightingale Floor

Across the nightingale floor is a book by Lian Hearn.It is about a child called Tomasu.It does not directly refer to the time but it seems asthough it is set during the 1500's in Japan.The book starts with Tomasu going out to the forest looking for food etc and when he comes back he finds his whole clan(The Hidden) has been slaughtered by the Tohan .When he enters the village Lord Iida approaches him and lunges at tomasu with his sword.Tomasu Dives awayu and Lord Iida falls to the ground.Infuriated he orders two of his men to chase and kill tomasu.When he gets into the forest he is grabbed by a man. He thinks that he is about to be killed The man defends him killing one and taking the arm of the other. Tomasu finds out the man is called Lord Otori.He takes tomasu home and renames him Takeo because it is not a Hidden name.Takeo does not speak for a while because of shock but in this time he finds out a lot of things about himself,such as the fact that he is a member of a clan of assasins.Near the end of the book lord Otori goes with takeo on a quest of some sort to take revenge on lord Iida.During this time there are twists that you don't expect wich makes it an exciting read.It is a long book and it took me a while to get into it but when you do get far in the book is a very exciting powerful book and I would give it 9/10