{"id":6379,"date":"2015-08-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6379"},"modified":"2015-08-20T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T17:07:09","slug":"ink-and-ashes-by-valynne-e-maetani-book-review-dads-secrets-her-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6379","title":{"rendered":"Ink and Ashes, by Valynne E. Maetani (book review) – Dad’s secrets, her peril"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Stepdad knew their late father?
\nBusiness trips were really what!?
\nIs that black SUV still following us?<\/p>\n

When Claire discovers that her long-dead father was part of a Japanese organized crime gang<\/a>, her whole world begins shaking – and here come the bad guys who want to make sure that the Utah teen goes under for good!<\/p>\n

If your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> doesn’t have this summer 2015 release on the shelf, ask for it!<\/p>\n

Family secrets – key to one’s own history or ticking time-bomb?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Ink and Ashes \/ Valynne E. Maetani. Tu Books, 2015.\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Claire’s search for answers on the tenth anniversary of her father’s death inadvertently alerts the yakuza to her family’s location – and the race for survival is on!<\/p>\n

The Japanese-American teen can’t believe that her stepfather knew her father and never told her, that a simple phone call could unleash a horde of bad guys intent on wiping out her family, that best buddy Forrest could think of her as more than a friend…<\/p>\n

The letters that Claire wrote to Otochan in the years after his death appear throughout the book, as the straight-A student weathers accusations of cheating at school, uncovers many strange things about her late father, and must rely on her group of guy-friends more than ever when objects symbolizing death start arriving at her Utah home.<\/p>\n

Why would Mom lie about her father’s past?
\nWhy does the Japanese crime gang care about her family after all this time?
\nCan she stay alive long enough to figure out Forrest?<\/p>\n

Action, intrigue, friendship, love, and revenge – watch out for black SUV following you!\u00a0 (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stepdad knew their late father? Business trips were really what!? Is that black SUV still following us? When Claire discovers that her long-dead father was part of a Japanese organized crime gang, her whole world begins shaking – and here come the bad guys who want to make sure that the Utah teen goes under […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19,30,51],"tags":[90,218,22,7,4,75,11,20,5,70,37,18,40,44,43,103,71,39,49,184,15,9,21,268,35,33,3,6,8,267,28],"class_list":["post-6379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-legends","category-mystery","tag-abandonment","tag-asian-american","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-japan","tag-kidnapping","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-stepfamily","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-utah","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6379"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6525,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions\/6525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}