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(a weekly post where I create fashionable wear with book cover art)
Blood Ninja
By Nick Lake
Release date: December 2009
-tween action
-ninjas and samurai warriors are fascinating
-i'm interested in sumo wrestlers too
Description from publisher's site (read a chapter excerpt at here):
A sword hilt was sticking out of his stomach, like a grotesque growth. Taro stared down at it. Blood was soaking through his cloak, and dripping down his trousers to pool in the crevices of his toes.
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And then the pain hit.
He doubled over, gasping, unable to breathe, feeling the burning metal that had pierced his organs and – he knew without checking – burst out through his back. At that moment his knees gave way, and it struck him with a horror that crawled on his skin that his spine might have been severed.
But I can't just die, he thought. I was going to be a samurai . . .
on my want list ;-D
*source for silhouette