Soul of the Sword

DNF @ 104 pages. I'd put this down with no desire to pick it back up and it's been sitting in my “Currently Reading” category for nearly 4 months, while I've read 8 other books and avoiding going back to this. I just didn't care at all about the characters or where this story was going. This might have been better had it been condensed into one book rather than a trilogy, but YA authors can't seem to help themselves, and because it's been stretched thin, there's just a lot of filler and more characters than necessary. The first book was enjoyable and interesting, as I've never read anything focusing on Japanese culture and folk tales before, but the two main characters in this story are unrelatable and, against all odds, boring.