A Bitter Taste
A Daidoji Shin Mystery

**Note: edited to less angry** A Bitter Taste is the fifth book in Daidoji Shin Mystery series set in the Rokugan Empire of the Legend of Five Rings game world. It’s an Asia inspired historical world divided in clans where honour is important, but women are equal and powerful, and same sex relationsh......more

My thanks to NetGalley and the publisher Aconyte Books for an advanced copy of this mystery series set in a role playing world, where dark forces are gathering and not the many wedding invitations our hero is inundated with. There is a lot to be said about friends, family, colleagues, and the genera......more

A Bitter Taste is the fifth in the Daidoji Shin series and I am surprised to say I think it may be my least favourite but I will get to that later. I will also say that while this may be able to be read as stand alone I highly recommend reading the first four to fully understand the characters and w......more

What a deeply excellent mystery. I loved Shin's characterization, and the slow way information was revealed and twists played out. It was masterfully-written as a mystery and genuinely great to read in that genre, never mind that it's tie-in IP fiction. I picked this up because I'd incidentally pick......more

It’s all come to a head: our idling hero must marry and he’s not best pleased about it. How will he be able to bumble about town and buy theatres and hang out with whomever he pleases if he’s married and packed off to a country estate? Then an auditor sent to investigate him is found murdered and Sh......more