I had no specific expectation and just gave a look to the blurb before joining the blog tour so I started this book without any bias or expectation.
I got more than I bargained because this is a well plotted, gripping, and intriguing thriller featuring a kickass heroine, Lily, who happens to be a ninja warrior, half Norwegian and half Chinese.
I find Lily's background intriguing and appreciated how the heroine was involved in helping abused women after something tragic happened in her life.
It's a lot of fun but it's also heartbreaking at times and multilayered.
There's a lot of violence that I usually don't like but the descriptions turned it a sort of cartoonish fight that made me smile at times.
I appreciated the humour and liked Lily who grew on me.
4.5 upped to 5. Highly recommended
Many thanks to Datura Books for this arc, all opinions are mine.

What a fun book to read. There's a great main character, wonderful, mouth-watering descriptions of food and exciting ninjutsu action. This was a quick read that kept me entertained all the way through.

I read an eARC of this book on NetGalley so thank you to the author and the publisher.

This was an exciting thriller with a very cool main character!

We follow our MC who has trained as a ninja as she works to protect women from abusive partners and dangerous men. She supports a local shelter and gets women out of perilous situations. However one case becomes complicated, and she finds herself embroiled in a mystery whilst trying to balance her family and their expectations and keeping her work a secret!

The main character in this was fantastic, a really layered and complex individual who we learn so much about in not a huge amount of time. Her historical trauma, her complicated relationships within her family, her reasons to be driven, her skills. We have a lot packed in to one character!

The core mystery was reasonably interesting, though not particularly memorable. It was more the main character herself that brought the intrigue to this with how she dealt with and investigated leads.

An entertaining thriller and a series I’m likely to continue with.

I struggled to get into this one which is a shame because I was looking forward to reading it. Ultimately, I just didn't connect with Lily which I think was due to more telling than showing as well as repetition. That, and I dislike swearing so starting with a cuss word in the first sentence nearly got this an immediate DNF.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

There are lots of things I liked about this book: the Chinese-Norwegian-Japanese cultural mixture, the personal revenge, the food scenes.
The bad news is however that the list of things that didn't work for me is longer.
The main character is meant to be a strong female ninja whose mission is to protect women, but she is actually a man-hating woman who bumps into solely abusive and evil men throughout the book.
I can see the point of her moving around in LA by bike but the argument for public transportation as opposed to driving comes up so many times that I had to check if it's a novel or a leaflet on sustainable mobility solutions.
Lily is eavesdropping on Ukrainian thugs discussing their plan, and of course they are doing this in English so that she can understand, lol.

Maybe the upcoming books in the series will be better, but I just couldn't take this one seriously.

The Ninja Daughter is an interesting novel about Lily, who uses her ninja skills to protect women and children from domestic violence and regular evil guys
While the writing at times is a little immature, the novel and story itself are filled with nostalgic feelings