The Ninja Daughter is an action-packed thriller about a Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja with Joy Luck Club family issues who fights the Los Angeles Ukrainian mob, sex traffickers, and her own family to save two desperate women and an innocent child.After her sister is raped and murdered, Lily Wong dedicates her life and ninja skills to the protection of women. But her mission is complicated. … complicated. Not only does she live above the Chinese restaurant owned by her Norwegian father and inspired by the recipes of her Chinese mother, but she has to hide her true self from her Hong Kong tiger mom who is already disappointed in her daughter’s less than feminine ways, and who would be horrified to know what she had become.
But when a woman and her son she escorted safely to an abused women’s shelter return home to dangerous consequences, Lily is forced to not only confront her family and her past, but team up with a mysterious—and very lethal—stranger to rescue them.
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Tori Eldridge reinvents Mickey Spillane toughness in The Ninja Daughter. A thoroughly enjoyable romp with a new literary ball of ninja thunder.
This was an unusual book for me. I thought it sounded different—a girl ninja, and it was different. It was full of action and violence. Too much violence and killing for me. It kept my interest, but I’m not glad I read it. But, if you’re made of “sterner stuff” than I am, you might like this book. It’s not the run of the mill book you pick up and read. Kind of an unusual ending and it definitely sets itself up for a sequel. There was good character development and vivid descriptions. When I would put the book down after reading it for a while, I would always feel like I had been watching a movie so it must have been very descriptive.