Bridge of Birds

Executive Summary: This book provides a good mix of adventure and humor with a bit of action and mystery thrown in for good measure. It's only about 250 pages, so it makes for a quick read once you get into it. Highly recommend.

Full Review
This one got on my radar thanks to Sword & Laser from one of Aaron's great white boards. It got lost on my ever-growing to read list, until the club decided to make the February pick.

Normally I try to time things so I can read the club picks at the beginning of the month, but that wasn't going to work out this time, so I opted to read it early rather than later.

This books starts off a bit slow. There is a lot of flowery descriptive language in the first chapter and I just wasn't digging it. I'd almost say you could skip the first chapter, but it explains a few things that are important later in the story.

By chapter 2 though, the story had already started grabbing my interest. Master Li comes off a bit like a cartoon character to me, but I really enjoy him, despite the slight flaw in his character.

Master Li and Number Ten Ox go on increasingly dangerous adventures in the hopes of saving the children of Ox's town. It seems like Master Li has ever increasingly zany schemes to match the danger. I thought that everything is tied together nicely in the end.

I'm really looking forward to checking out the other two books in the series, as I purchased all 3 in the eBook omnibus.