There is something mean-spirited about Descendant of the Crane, in that it is a book which exists solely to deliver all these shocking, awful moments, but it doesn’t fill in the spaces between with the necessary moments of hope and warmth to give the blows meaning or depth.
– Hard to care about Hesina as a protagonist – Hard to care about the investigation or the war until over halfway through the book – … the story only exists for those shocks and twists – Good characterization of secondary and tertiary characters Genre-typical descriptions of blood and violence, emotional manipulation, distant parent, emotionally abusive parent, emotionally neglectful parent, mentions of animal death. Published by Albert Whitman & Company / AW Teen Imprint
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