Ronin of Dust is an action adventure story featuring a grizzled war vet lady protagonist, set in a fictional world scarred from a war with an army of yokai. 

At the time of writing this review I've just reached the end of part one. In my opinion the story is written well enough to be on par with published novels. The writing is clean and readable, which isn't always the case on scribblehub, the protagonist is unique, and the story is action packed but doesn't skip on the emotion.

Overall a great read, recommend 10/10.

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This has an interesting enough premise, I suppose. The thing with youkai is nothing revolutionary, but having an older/middle-aged transgender woman as a protagonist is unusual.

As such, I did want to like it - and I guess I did, but only bits and pieces of it. By and large however, I failed to build much of an emotional connection to any of the characters, perceiving them as kind of... shallow, almost. Instead, my favourite parts were the descriptions of youkai and violence.

Then, there was the dialogue - and in some cases, monologues. To me, it felt like at times, the characters revealed way too many things right off the bat - like for example Masami's backstory in chapter 5.

Another thing: This is just a pet peeve of mine, but, authors, please number your chapters. Numbered chapters make it so much easier to keep track.

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