SuitabookThe hidden blade
Sherry Thomas
- Reading
- Because the story follows two young characters in different countries, pause between their strands to compare what each is trying to achieve. Check in after the shooting and captivity if those events feel intense.
- Themes
- Strength and independence: A mysterious figure offers the girl martial-arts instruction as a path towards strength and independence. The training is presented as a route to greater agency, rather than merely as a fighting skill.
- Parallel journeys: The story follows a girl in Peking and a boy in England, whose lives are expected to converge. The premise uses two distant settings and separate character journeys to build towards a meeting.
- Worth knowing
- The premise includes a shooting, the boy being torn from his family and held hostage, and the girl being trained to become deadly. These elements may merit a check-in with readers sensitive to danger or harm.