LITTLE KUNOICHI
TANIA WALSH
ISBN# Unavailable
August 2007
Amira Press
www.amirapress.com
EBook
Price $3.50
28 pages
Futuristic Romance
Rating: 4 cups

Mika Takei is an assassin who works to stop a group that calls themselves the MOB. Mika has been an orphan since she was five years old when her parents were murdered. At thirteen she did her first hit and has never looked back. She is an exterminator trying to rid the world of these scum, the MOB who kill innocents and try to take over the world. Mika loves to inflict pain, loves the thrill of possibly being caught, and has an insane addiction to pain and sex.

The only person that matters in her life is her mentor and guardian Shiro. But Shiro is soon tortured and murdered because Mika refuses to commit a hit on another woman. As Mika suffers silently over the death of Shiro, another hit man, Irie Kosho tries to help her come to grips with Shiro’s death through very intense and fulfilling sex.

Mika eventually finds out that both she and Shiro have been set up because of a past hit she took part in. Now instead of using her skills at killing, she must learn to find and protect the one person who can keep her alive.

Little Kunoichi is a very graphic and sexually charged story. Mika is the ultimate anti-heroine who has no true conscience. She is scarred both inside and out, and yet, I found myself feeling for her and the pain she goes through on a daily basis. Tania Walsh has written an intriguing alternative universe with war and destruction. Mika’s need for sexual release, even in the most precarious of situations makes for an uncomfortable read, but overall this young woman has a way about her that will make any reader cheer for her triumph. There is no true happy ending but a sense that a character like Mika will continue to survive and perhaps find love.

Kate
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