Wonderful mixture of Daoism, ghost hunting, martial arts, San Francisco's Chinatown, magic, a great central character, and a couple of great side-kicks, who may, or may not be ghosts and monsters. I got lost in some of the forms in fighting, but then, I have trouble remembering the forms doing Tai Chi, and I do that every day (and have for almost 4 years now.)
Found this via a FB post of author Michael Livingston, who mentioned seeing the book on the shelf near his own book, while travelling at Christmas. Good tip. Wish I had energy to write a full review, but have just enough to give it a hearty thumbs up.
*Secret histories are those tales set in our world, within our events and time lines, but depict additional happenings than what we are told in our history books.
Tags: read-in-2015, thank-you-charleston-county-library, fantasy, secret-history, taught-me-something, made-me-look-something-up, places-i-have-been, will-look-for-more-by-this-author
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