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Will love be sacrificed when duty and honor rule all? The life of a shinobi is, at its best, a selfless devotion to duty. In modern day Japan, the ninja legends live on in a grim saga of political maneuverings, betrayal, sexual abuse, torture and homoeroticism. The Shinobi clans lurk in the shadows, performing services that not even the hardened Yakuza will touch. Takahashi Yoshi fulfills his duty with soul-stripping resolve, each assignment driving a nail into a coffin of lost faith. After years of sexual abuse and torture in the name of clan honor, Yoshi must learn to trust, but the man who offers him hope is himself flawed. Sasaki Makoto has spent a career in torture and interrogation, exploring not only the dark secrets of his clan's enemies, but also the darkness within his own heart. How far must Yoshi run to escape his shame and torment? And what price freedom when fear and self-loathing threaten to upend the hard fought struggle to find meaning and safety in a world fraught with danger. Yoshi seeks time and space, only to find himself once more at the mercy of power mongers and despots. When Makoto finds him, Yoshi is broken in more than body. Near death, his spirit recedes to find safety within, locking out all who care. They say time will heal but the path to acceptance is never easy, the roadblocks many, and none will emerge unscathed as Yoshi embarks on a struggle for balance.
Shadow Wolf Sessha Batto Books
I read this book when it was still available in two separate parts... so here is my review split into twoThis book opens with intensity. Within two chapters you are eyeballs deep in visceral pain, shocked at the level of abuse and brutality displayed boldly on a crisp white page. Shinobi takes your comfort zone and smashes it. This is desperately required if you are going to get inside the head of Yoshi, the Shinobi who is the main character in this book.
Unlike other reviewers, I'm taking this review in an entirely different direction. I'm not going to tell you what it's about (that's what the blurb is for), instead I'm going to tell you why this book is so touching and brilliant.
Sessha Batto has shown you the inside of abuse, from the victim's perspective. Almost everyone who has ever been used for someone else's *avenue of release* will relate to Yoshi's behavior. It doesn't matter if it's pain, or rape, or humiliation and the feeling of powerlessness, and somehow of taking responsibility for the abuse and thinking *it's your fault*. Through circumstances, and society, all victims are made to feel ashamed. If you are raped, for many years (and I still read it today) the outer view is that the person who was raped *brought it on themselves*. If it's a family incest or abuse matter - you are forced to keep the hideous secret out of loyalty and fear. Even if you are attacked - you feel ashamed because you couldn't defend yourself, you weren't strong enough - or you feel you should have protected your *loved ones* from attack. Shame is central to all forms of abuse.
I've seen men cry that they failed their families. I've known women who take their rape and turn it into an advantage. If men want sex - they turn the sex into their tool of power - it's a coping mechanism - a strategy only those who've walked in the same shoes will understand. Anyone who knows pain intimately (psychologically, emotionally and physically) will see the psychological angle skillfully used in Shinobi. Shessha Batto has done the best job at showing you exactly *how it is* in this work of fiction. People who are unscathed argue *why not leave* *Fight back* *do this* *do that*. They are unable to see that a victim is stuck in a mental cage of abuse. Often put there when they were too young to even logically or emotionally cope with it. Adults abused as children live with that abuse daily - because they haven't *developed* naturally with nurturing and safety. They will never understand the argument of *just change*. You can't change until you have a safe reason to change.
And that is where the beauty of this book lies. Sessha has taken the reader on a journey through Shinobi, from the horrific abuse of Yoshi, through his years of hating himself and feeling no better than a shameful whore unworthy of love, to finally daring to believe someone could love him without needing to get something out of the deal. Without needing to use his body, or to use it to express their anger and pain by inflicting it bodily on another. To someone like Yoshi, love is a foreign concept. A concept which is unfamiliar and therefore to be questioned with distrust. How can anyone love you - after all - they all want something from you - life has taught him that the hard way. It is very hard to love - when all you know is hurt. The cost of more hurt may be too much to bear.
And like others in this type of situation, Yoshi quickly adapts to the *conditioned psychological role* of someone who is only safe when they're being used - because then they understand the playing field. Too quick to say *I love you*, because it's a defense mechanism they hope will keep them safe from hurt / harm.
This novel is erotica - and the reader needs to know there is a LOT of sex between the pages. This novel is written as male erotica (M/M), but that in no way overrides the brilliance of what the author has achieved. I am so impressed with how well Sessha has managed to immerse the reader into an ancient Japanese environment, into the elite ninja fraternity, with their culture, food, hierarchy and mannerisms - while still managing to show the reader a beautifully touching story of how child abuse scars the adult for life. Love, knows no boundaries. Again I think this book points out that we turn to the familiar, if a man hurt you, it's a man you'll turn to (it's basic childhood psychological conditioning). There was no other way for Sessha to do this theme and message justice than to write it the way it was told. It is perfect as it is. I also think that women will relate to this so much better having the abuse happen between men. It separates anyone abused from the reality of their own lives - again revealing how delicately Sessha has approached this extremely taboo and sensitive topic.
The fact that the main character Yoshi finds safety and love in a man big enough, and strong enough, to really hurt him, gives every reader hope. It shows there is a side to all of us (no matter how large or rough we are) that seeks emotional nurturing and safety.
Shinobi is a fantastic story about what the elite ninja lived through, how their entire system operates, and pays homage to men who lived and died in service to their brethren, with undying loyalty to their family name, kin, and to the system into which they were birthed. Their honor mattered more to them than their own lives, and Sessha has really brought this clandestine sect into the open with a loving respect and great attention to detail. Shinobi is more than just a ninja story, it's more than just erotica, it is an incredible tribute to anyone who has ever been hurt by someone they trusted and loved. I mentioned earlier that people who are abused don't *just change* until they have a safe reason to change. And Sessha ends the book with that reason (beautiful, absolutely soul touchingly beautiful).
I give this book 5 out of 5 stars for sheer brilliance and sensitivity to the real theme behind the plot.
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Book 2 of Shinobi is just as shattering as book 1. It's such a heartbreakingly vulnerable read. I won't be telling you a single thing about the plot, or the story, instead I'm going to tell you how I felt reading this.
From book 1 we already know Yoshi has been horribly abused. The cost of that abuse is a significantly low self-esteem with borderline depression. What I loved about Sessha's writing in book 1 is how real she made the victim of abuse, she shows you what it does from the inside out. Reading this book (2) was tumultuous. So many humans get off on pain, they like to label you, they say your past defines you, and despite desperately needing to break free to start again... some people are so selfish they want to keep on hurting you by locking you back into yesterdays shackles.
The cost to the person who was abused, to be kept in this mental prison, is severe trauma. It rocks their already shaky foundation and it tips them overboard. How much can any one person take before they crumble? Sessha may have written this as fiction and in a m/m environment, but it is an astute observation of society.
In this work, what happens to Yoshi shattered me. I couldn't handle it. But just like in life, even when you are a shadow of who you could be, that one special person who loves you not for your past, or your looks, or what you do for them, but simply loves you... Love has no cost, it has no price, it exists in a realm divided from such petty evaluations of *worth*... well that person has a way of giving you hope, a way of making you dare to believe in the illusion of safety, they free you to dare to be yourself.
This book goes through this incredible selfless, patient love, only to be crushed when the past becomes too much and the victim cannot face the mental and emotional torture a second longer. I can understand needing that escape, it makes you yearn for a world where people are not so brutally self absorbed that they crush delicate petals which have just found the courage to bloom. Humans, this book will make you loathe them for their shallow and despicable pursuits of complete selfishness.
A good author will show you the very best and the very worst of humanity, and make you feel those emotions through reaction, and this book certainly nailed it for me. If you have ever felt the disdain of others, felt unworthy, prejudged, felt like other people project their issues onto you and expect you to carry their cross, then you will relate to this book. Thought provoking literature makes people uncomfortable. It peels back the veneer all these fake individuals are wearing and it holds up a mirror and says... is this okay? Is it pretty? Does it hurt?
That's what this book does. Yoshi's self esteem issues are so deeply real they hurt the reader. Most people just want to use others... this book covers this ground so thoroughly a metal detector won't be able to find one shred of shrapnel left when it's done because it's all in Yoshi. His soul is slithered with every jab, every unfair accusation, every time someone's judged him not caring about what it does to HIM. It's a nasty smear which pervades society, one you will say is justified, and yet this book will truly show you... it's not. Nothing can justify what humans do to other humans.
It took me a long time to read this book because of the pure emotional intensity poured into the pages. At one point it even made me ache and feel hopeless. That's damn good writing. I shared this journey, at no point did I feel like a disjointed voyeur. The writing is fluid, smooth, and superior. (And it has a happy ending) Without a doubt 5 out of 5 stars from me.
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Shadow Wolf Sessha Batto Books Reviews
I read this book when it was still available in two separate parts... so here is my review split into two
This book opens with intensity. Within two chapters you are eyeballs deep in visceral pain, shocked at the level of abuse and brutality displayed boldly on a crisp white page. Shinobi takes your comfort zone and smashes it. This is desperately required if you are going to get inside the head of Yoshi, the Shinobi who is the main character in this book.
Unlike other reviewers, I'm taking this review in an entirely different direction. I'm not going to tell you what it's about (that's what the blurb is for), instead I'm going to tell you why this book is so touching and brilliant.
Sessha Batto has shown you the inside of abuse, from the victim's perspective. Almost everyone who has ever been used for someone else's *avenue of release* will relate to Yoshi's behavior. It doesn't matter if it's pain, or rape, or humiliation and the feeling of powerlessness, and somehow of taking responsibility for the abuse and thinking *it's your fault*. Through circumstances, and society, all victims are made to feel ashamed. If you are raped, for many years (and I still read it today) the outer view is that the person who was raped *brought it on themselves*. If it's a family incest or abuse matter - you are forced to keep the hideous secret out of loyalty and fear. Even if you are attacked - you feel ashamed because you couldn't defend yourself, you weren't strong enough - or you feel you should have protected your *loved ones* from attack. Shame is central to all forms of abuse.
I've seen men cry that they failed their families. I've known women who take their rape and turn it into an advantage. If men want sex - they turn the sex into their tool of power - it's a coping mechanism - a strategy only those who've walked in the same shoes will understand. Anyone who knows pain intimately (psychologically, emotionally and physically) will see the psychological angle skillfully used in Shinobi. Shessha Batto has done the best job at showing you exactly *how it is* in this work of fiction. People who are unscathed argue *why not leave* *Fight back* *do this* *do that*. They are unable to see that a victim is stuck in a mental cage of abuse. Often put there when they were too young to even logically or emotionally cope with it. Adults abused as children live with that abuse daily - because they haven't *developed* naturally with nurturing and safety. They will never understand the argument of *just change*. You can't change until you have a safe reason to change.
And that is where the beauty of this book lies. Sessha has taken the reader on a journey through Shinobi, from the horrific abuse of Yoshi, through his years of hating himself and feeling no better than a shameful whore unworthy of love, to finally daring to believe someone could love him without needing to get something out of the deal. Without needing to use his body, or to use it to express their anger and pain by inflicting it bodily on another. To someone like Yoshi, love is a foreign concept. A concept which is unfamiliar and therefore to be questioned with distrust. How can anyone love you - after all - they all want something from you - life has taught him that the hard way. It is very hard to love - when all you know is hurt. The cost of more hurt may be too much to bear.
And like others in this type of situation, Yoshi quickly adapts to the *conditioned psychological role* of someone who is only safe when they're being used - because then they understand the playing field. Too quick to say *I love you*, because it's a defense mechanism they hope will keep them safe from hurt / harm.
This novel is erotica - and the reader needs to know there is a LOT of sex between the pages. This novel is written as male erotica (M/M), but that in no way overrides the brilliance of what the author has achieved. I am so impressed with how well Sessha has managed to immerse the reader into an ancient Japanese environment, into the elite ninja fraternity, with their culture, food, hierarchy and mannerisms - while still managing to show the reader a beautifully touching story of how child abuse scars the adult for life. Love, knows no boundaries. Again I think this book points out that we turn to the familiar, if a man hurt you, it's a man you'll turn to (it's basic childhood psychological conditioning). There was no other way for Sessha to do this theme and message justice than to write it the way it was told. It is perfect as it is. I also think that women will relate to this so much better having the abuse happen between men. It separates anyone abused from the reality of their own lives - again revealing how delicately Sessha has approached this extremely taboo and sensitive topic.
The fact that the main character Yoshi finds safety and love in a man big enough, and strong enough, to really hurt him, gives every reader hope. It shows there is a side to all of us (no matter how large or rough we are) that seeks emotional nurturing and safety.
Shinobi is a fantastic story about what the elite ninja lived through, how their entire system operates, and pays homage to men who lived and died in service to their brethren, with undying loyalty to their family name, kin, and to the system into which they were birthed. Their honor mattered more to them than their own lives, and Sessha has really brought this clandestine sect into the open with a loving respect and great attention to detail. Shinobi is more than just a ninja story, it's more than just erotica, it is an incredible tribute to anyone who has ever been hurt by someone they trusted and loved. I mentioned earlier that people who are abused don't *just change* until they have a safe reason to change. And Sessha ends the book with that reason (beautiful, absolutely soul touchingly beautiful).
I give this book 5 out of 5 stars for sheer brilliance and sensitivity to the real theme behind the plot.
~~~~~~~
Book 2 of Shinobi is just as shattering as book 1. It's such a heartbreakingly vulnerable read. I won't be telling you a single thing about the plot, or the story, instead I'm going to tell you how I felt reading this.
From book 1 we already know Yoshi has been horribly abused. The cost of that abuse is a significantly low self-esteem with borderline depression. What I loved about Sessha's writing in book 1 is how real she made the victim of abuse, she shows you what it does from the inside out. Reading this book (2) was tumultuous. So many humans get off on pain, they like to label you, they say your past defines you, and despite desperately needing to break free to start again... some people are so selfish they want to keep on hurting you by locking you back into yesterdays shackles.
The cost to the person who was abused, to be kept in this mental prison, is severe trauma. It rocks their already shaky foundation and it tips them overboard. How much can any one person take before they crumble? Sessha may have written this as fiction and in a m/m environment, but it is an astute observation of society.
In this work, what happens to Yoshi shattered me. I couldn't handle it. But just like in life, even when you are a shadow of who you could be, that one special person who loves you not for your past, or your looks, or what you do for them, but simply loves you... Love has no cost, it has no price, it exists in a realm divided from such petty evaluations of *worth*... well that person has a way of giving you hope, a way of making you dare to believe in the illusion of safety, they free you to dare to be yourself.
This book goes through this incredible selfless, patient love, only to be crushed when the past becomes too much and the victim cannot face the mental and emotional torture a second longer. I can understand needing that escape, it makes you yearn for a world where people are not so brutally self absorbed that they crush delicate petals which have just found the courage to bloom. Humans, this book will make you loathe them for their shallow and despicable pursuits of complete selfishness.
A good author will show you the very best and the very worst of humanity, and make you feel those emotions through reaction, and this book certainly nailed it for me. If you have ever felt the disdain of others, felt unworthy, prejudged, felt like other people project their issues onto you and expect you to carry their cross, then you will relate to this book. Thought provoking literature makes people uncomfortable. It peels back the veneer all these fake individuals are wearing and it holds up a mirror and says... is this okay? Is it pretty? Does it hurt?
That's what this book does. Yoshi's self esteem issues are so deeply real they hurt the reader. Most people just want to use others... this book covers this ground so thoroughly a metal detector won't be able to find one shred of shrapnel left when it's done because it's all in Yoshi. His soul is slithered with every jab, every unfair accusation, every time someone's judged him not caring about what it does to HIM. It's a nasty smear which pervades society, one you will say is justified, and yet this book will truly show you... it's not. Nothing can justify what humans do to other humans.
It took me a long time to read this book because of the pure emotional intensity poured into the pages. At one point it even made me ache and feel hopeless. That's damn good writing. I shared this journey, at no point did I feel like a disjointed voyeur. The writing is fluid, smooth, and superior. (And it has a happy ending) Without a doubt 5 out of 5 stars from me.
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