A enjoyable, melodramatic page-turner. ( )

Historical fiction with supernatural overtones, from the author of the Repairman Jack novels. This reportedly forms the background to the 2008 RJ title, By the Sword.

Two boys grow up together in 1920s San Francisco, one white, one Japanese. Although Matsuo is summoned back to Japan by his father, their destinies remain intertwined up to and through World War II. Both have their parts to play in a future foreseen by an ancient order of Japanese monks. ( )

This book is about a big bomb that is over a small village . and one day a old lady comes out and says where is the rain and the once she said that things began to change.the next day she said that she got shocked with lighting and did not say it again.but when she said make it rain more the clouds came in a cricle and shocked her so hard her mom and dad felt it on the aother side . so it was a bad chance of saying it agasin cause then she would die.then the next day she left ome and did not come back it was not good at all.after the storm was gone she noticed it was a bomb and not her so she moved back home and was happy for life. what i liked about this book was that it made me laught alot cause the book was just super funny. also i like it when she said let it rain again and she got shocked that was funny cause people say lighting never strikes in the same spot it is a funny book.the book also is good cause it makes you feel you are there watching it.also the book is bad too cause it had a bad end. this is why i read this book and this is why it is good and it is bad .