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. 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.
This was a well paced suspenseful read that had me on the edge of my seat. Lily was an amazing character with a good sense of a humour and she was a total badass. I loved the idea of her working to become a female ninja in order to be a protector of women. It was a unique concept and one which I felt the author covered well. The descriptions of the martial arts was really interesting and I loved all the cultural elements that were included. The secondary characters were good too although I didn't really care much about Daniel. On the other hand Tran! I hope he makes an appearance in the next book. I really liked the way he and Lily were kindred spirits of a sort, even if their motives are as different as can be. I can't wait to read the second book. 4.5 stars, rounded up to 5.
