Review by annabearhun -- Uncle Yuta has an Adventure

[Theresa Anna Green]

[Following is a volunteer review of "Uncle Yuta has an Adventure" by Claire Youmans.]

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2 out of 4 stars

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If you are a fan of hot sake and romantic wine dinners, then this book is for you. While reading this book I learned the values within Japanese culture such as caring for elders and hot sake nights. I got to be in the eyes of Yuta, a former monk, throughout his adventure.


I stepped into the fourth book, not having read the first three in the series but that didn’t disturb my reading. First, you start with an adventure involving creature-like students traveling around Japan for their school master, Yuta. Then the students try to prepare Yuta for a big conference in Tokyo. It later ends with an amazing action-packed love story.


His journey to obtain new school standards for his school was set in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo is a big city and Uncle Yuta is from the countryside of Japan. This book expresses how Japanese and Western cultures were intertwined in the city of Tokyo.


If you are a fashion designer than this book is for you. It was very inspiring to see how Europe and Asia jelled together creating a huge fashion trend in Japan, especially in Tokyo. Claire Youmans provided a sequence of events in how fashion is done through fabric, sewing, piecing and fitting. Claire Youmans allowed me to see the life of a fashion designer in Japan during the Meiji Era.


Claire Youmans incorporated the realities of life in two different cultures. She also brought animal symbolism and mythological creatures in her characters. I loved how she brought alive Uncle Yuta has an Adventure with travel, sewing, true love, hot sake, Japanese cuisines, and the development of education. This is why I couldn’t give this book a 1 because of the lifestyles she told about the characters in separate narrations.


I rate this book 2 out of 4 but I would give partial points more to the rating because of the way my imagination reacted throughout the book. Claire Youmans really brought out my imagination with the mythological characters performing telepathy, teleportation, and transformation. I wished that I would have gotten to known Yuta’s personable side earlier on in the book, but only up until the end of the book did I. Though the story build took a lot of time, which is why I didn’t give it a 3, the character side stories, and the two separate cultures amused me till the climax of the book.

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Uncle Yuta has an Adventure
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