Summary Of Sisters Of The Sword

Sisters of the Sword by Maya Snow is a very emotional book. This book is set in 1185, the feudal era in Japan. One clue for the time period is that Japan still had a king instead of a president, another was that they still wore the white faces and traditional silk robes. The character who told this story was Kimi, she was also the main character. She tells her story of her escape with her sister, Hana. She also tells how they come to realize that the commoner life is hard. My favorite character of course is Kimi, I like that she was strong and decided to do something instead of staying at their house in risk of something bad happening. Kimi was courageous and adventurous and that is what really made me like her personality since the beginning.
This book was mainly about two sisters, Kimi and Hana. Kimi's uncle, Hidehira, comes over for one of his normal visits, because Kimi's father was leaving and her uncle was taking his place as
Something interesting and even scary was that the jito could order his samurai to search, find someone, and even possibly kill them. I like the braveness and eye opening, jaw dropping moments in this book. For example, one moment that was jaw dropping was when Hidehira and Kimi come face to face again after about three to five years. I like how the author used the true era, feudal era to explain how crucial this story was within the rules of girls fighting. A quote that explains this similarity was “I see you blink with surprise. A girl? you are thinking. Surely a girl cannot be a samurai. But you are wrong.” That explains that they broke the rules for their passion, fighting. It also explains why I think that both the girls where very interesting. If I where in their shoes I would have not had the courage to do what they did, yet they still went through it with