The Last Ronin: A Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles Novel by Erik Burnham
adapts The Last Ronin comic into a prose novel. In this novel set
in the far future, New York is a dystopia ruled by the Foot Clan led by the
Shredder’s grandson. The last surviving Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle has
returned to New York to climb the Foot Clan tower and kill him. He is on a
suicide mission out for revenge against the man who killed his family.
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This is a violent novel full of death,
dismemberment and plenty of action. The story is told from three main
perspectives with some flashbacks to how the Turtles died and other flashbacks.
The deceased turtles are frequently around as ghosts to bug the Last Ronin.
I enjoyed the novel way more than I
enjoyed the comic book version. My two main complaints with the book are the
same ones I had regarding the comic book version. The main villain is too
generic and uninteresting. The Last Turtle is stripped of personality in order
to have the mystery of the identity of the turtle survivor. Once the identity is
revealed to the reader, the Last Turtle is still depicted as nothing more than
the generic revenge seeker.
Still, I would recommend this book. By
the way, there is a video game and a movie adaption being worked on for this
story. Hopefully, both will address these issues.
Amazon Associate Purchase Link: https://amzn.to/3SpJI7F
I read this through Hoopla by way of the
Dallas Public Library System.
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