The Assassin's Curse/暗殺者の呪い

Now you are probably suprised on why is there some Japanese Letters on the title.You see I've been learning Japanese for a while now and an "acquaintance" of my friend keeps stressing me on how I should practice my Japanese more often by chatting to someone in the internet so I decided from now on I'm just going to write my review in both english and japanese.However because my Japanese isn't that good I will probably try to simplify it as much as possible for now and just saying I can't actually read or write Kanji that well I probably can recognize the most basic Kanji so I'm probably going to use a Kanji Transalator in my post.I'm just telling you this because sometimes the transalator isn't that good and makes mistake so I'm just telling you that you may find some errors on my post.Now I'm already getting a headache on thinking on how willl I transalate my post from now own I will start writing the Japanese version of my post on January.I read a book called The Assassin's Curse last week.It was written by Cassandra Rose Clark.It was published in 2012 and it is the first boom of the series.

The High and Low
.The book had a gorgeus cover
.The characters were great
.The story was told brilliantly and it felt refrshing

.The book was too short

Quick Summary
Ananna of The Tanarau is forced to flee after her parents decided that she will marry Tarrin to ally with another pirate clan.While he is a very handsome man she just can't marry someone like that and decided to flee when he wasn't looking but by doing this she has angered Tarrin's Parents and the decided to send an assssin's after her.Knowing her life is in grave danger she asked for a strange woman's help who gave her a spell to send the assassin to another place where he will never disturb her again.Somehow the spell didn't work and she is forced to defend her life using a knife.When the were fighting she saw a snake coming closer to the assassin without any further thought she killed the snake and because of that she activated a curse that binded them together now he has to protect her from danger while looking for a cure for this curse.........................That 's all I should say because this book is rather short and I don't want to spoil anything

The Conclusion
Actually I bought this book because it had a promotion and not to mention it's gorgeus cover.While a lot of people would argue about that I simply can't resist a good looking cover like this.Ananna and Naji are both great characters they managed to show me that not all Young Adult characters are the same yes while i did praise characters from books like Unspoken,I still felt like the characters lack something.The biggest suprise for me was the story.The author really suprised me sometimes I felt like I was reading a Diana Wynne Jones novel because of it's wit and the characters charm.As you open the book Ananna mentions something that a lot of young adult heroine should have known and the line was "I ain't never been one to trust beautiful people"imagine if all of those heroine followed this line wouldn't it make their life a whole lot easier.Ananna and Naji does have something going on between them but it light and their relationship doesn't actually go anywhere by the end of this book and thank goodness for that.I always felt that the characters from a lot of books were rushed and I don't mind for the characters to take their time at least for the first two books.I forgot to mention that I felt the book was too short because on back cover it had a sypnosis and while it did deliver on what it had said it only gave us a preview on what to come,I don't actually mind the length though because sometimes a good book can really turn sour if it goes on too long.(You will probably understand what I'm saying if you read the book)The Assassin's Curse is probably the best book I read this year and it probably is one of the best young adult book written this year.

Rating:10 out of 10