The Ring of Fire (Young Samurai, Book 6)

This is a very inspiring book. This book taught me very good lessons, including forgiveness. I liked this book because it has a lot of action, wisdom, and being kind to the people who serve us. I recommend this book to people who love action and life lessons.

Have enjoyed each book and end one looking forward to the next. A reminder that not every story needs to be deep and dark.

As fast paced as ever, with just the right mix of tense anticipation, lightening action and quick-witted humor. The only drawback to this book was the howls of protest from my 10, 8, and 5 year old each time I would have to tell them it was time for bed and I wasn't going to read the next chapter:)

Wow I love this book. The reference to seven samurai was not missed. I recommend this book to everyone. The quotes are like my second best thing about this series. The first being the martial arts

This book was a definitely awesome book that I have read over and over and each time it feels like I am actually there fighting the enemy. I would recommend it highly to anyone.

The title says it all. really good. One thing i love about it is that characters that you think they might not appear again after the battle at osaka appears in this book. and there aremore awesome charactrs, although one of them died. A must read especially the fansof young samurai.

My 11 year old loved the first four books in this series and couldn't wait to get this one. He was disappointed with book 5, but gave this one a try anyway. Still disappointed.

We love this series. Pleas keep writing more. Can't wait to read the next one. Fast paced and enthralling. Great

Another great book by Chris Bradford. I love this book. As much as I like the rest of the series, I think this is my favourite so far. Each chapter is 5 or 6 pages on average. Everytime I finished a chapter it usually finished on a cliff hanger, I wanted to read the next one instantly. My logic was there are only a few pages anyway till the next chapter. I got late a couple of times because I did not want the put the book down.Jack enters the mountains trying to louring his enemies after him instead of his friends. However samurai honour will not allow him to over look people in need. We see the return of a few of the original characters as well as the a couple the newbies.As a martial artist as well I really love much of the insider knowledge that of Chris has, the little things like pushing your body beyond it's comfort limits, but still respecting that fact that there are limits. Another example is that it is continually stressed how much work and training goes into becoming a samurai, it is a not just giving someone a sword and teaching the a few moves and formation and saying defend yourself. It is a mindset, as well as physically gruelling, it is the mental aspects life handling doubts and fears the make the greatest difference. The first half of this book is a setup for the coming battle, some people might find this boring but I really thought all the little intricacies made the book for me. There are also parts of the book where Jack faces bigger more battle tested opponents and the results are the same as they would in the real world this just adds to the book appeal for me. Another great thing done well in this book, is the divide in Japanese society, the lowly farmers, the high born samurai and the ninja.These books are are not really meant to be stand alone books. However each book has a satisfactory conclusion at the end of it, but as soon I finish one I want to read the next one. Even in this book I found myself wanting to read faster to see what happens next, then wanting slow down so the book would not finish.

Japan, winter 1614, Jack was battling a blizzard, he had left his Ronin friend recovering from his wounds, Hana was taking a message to his friend Akiko, Jack was heading to Nagasaki hoping to find a ship for England, having no money some farmers offered Jack a job, Tuge, Soro and Kunio a boy of Jack's age, a young girl served rice, their village was being starved by a bandit taking all their food, Jack agreed to help and they went to the village, the young girl was Neko, he was greeted by Junichi the head and Yoshi the elder, the bandit was Akuma, he had 40 men, Jack rescues a baby from a burning hut, Jack noticed Akuma had taken all the young womenJack needed seven Samurai to help, Jack meets an old friend Saburo who agrees to help along with a small monk Yori both had trained with Jack, Hayatu, Youduu joined them, a ninja friend Miyuki had been following, the Samurai and Ninja did not get on, Jack and the others trained the farmers, Jack prepared defenses, they attacked the bandits camp to rescue the girls, fierce fighting broke out at the village, the bandits attacked from all sides, they caught Yori and prepared to burn him alive if they did not surrender, Miyuki rescued him, the bloody fight continuesWill Jack and his friends survive the fight, will Jack be able to continue his journey to Nagasaka and escape the Shogun's Samurai that are hunting himMy verdict, excellent book, excellent fighting, having read all the books was a little sad to see the storyline of this one linked to The Seven Samurai or the Magnificient Seven

Many years ago i was into the young samurai books that i entered the competition and won for the name Akuma. I stumbled upon my signed copy from Chris, read the book again and ive gone back into re-reading all of them, love the story, i can spend a whole day just reading the young samurai books. No nonsense, action packed, great story line!

Very well written and obviously very well researched. A serie of stories of friendship, brotherly and sisterly love, respect, honour and hatred and treachery, We followed Jack from being a 12 year old boy to a 16 year old young man and although there was some hugging between Jack and his male and female friends at no time was their any sex or inappropriate touching mentioned - sadly unusual in today's books. I enjoyed the whole series from start to finish and can only hope that Jack made it back safely to England and was reunited with his sister, and that he lived a happy and safe life which he deserved after all that he had been through.

The only problem with this book is the jokes. That is why it only gets a 4 star. Whenever Miyuki the ninja says a joke it usually follows with something like "a hilarous ninja joke," and i go, A NINJA WOULD NOT SAY THAT AFTER A JOKE!!!! So yeah, good book, bad jokes