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Go No Sen (Emily Kane, #1)

Jacques Antoine

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Sep 02, 2013 Jess Mountifield rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: review-requests, added-2013, read-2014

This book starts off a teensy bit on the slow side and has a slightly more omniscient narration style than I'm used to which took me a couple of chapters to get used to, but once I was used to it found myself really enjoying.

Emily was brilliant. I'm not sure there's any other way to describe her. I adored her completely. She has a tough time of things but she just handles it all brilliantly and is so relaxed.

The story was pretty good too. For a martial arts book it never felt like that was the e ...more

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Mar 04, 2012 Gemma rated it it was ok

This book unfortunately wasn't for me.
I liked the idea of the story, and the main character Emily. But, I found it just a bit too far fetched for my liking.
At the beginning, Emily was a quiet girl into her martial arts, then her Dad lets her in on a huge family secret which involves them running away. She then decides to go back to her School alone, and suddenly has lot's of friends and seems to have gained a super-woman status. There are lot's of people after her, and on numerous occasions th ...more

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Mar 08, 2012 Carmen rated it liked it

Shelves: young-adult

This book started a little slow for me, but grew into a pretty good story. Think it would be a great book for the younger crowd, with some good lessons in it.

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