Pai Kit Fai
Auteur de The Concubine's Daughter
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Pai Kit Fai
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Fai, Pai Kit
- Sexe
- male
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Critiques
I got half-way through this book and couldn't bring myself to finish. It wasn't horrible, it just wasn't that good. The plot was super predictable and I just didn't care enough about the characters to make it worth my time.
Fai's imagery is beautiful and does manage to transport the reader to China in the early twentieth century. However, the book is divided into two parts, and it would have been better - and helped with pacing - if it was two seperate books, one focusing on Li-Xia, the title character, and the other on Siu-Sing, her daughter.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 354
- Popularité
- #67,648
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 37
- ISBN
- 8
- Langues
- 1
This book is split across two women: Li-Xia, who works her way from being the unwanted daughter of a wealthy man's concubine to the wife of one of the richest Eurasian men in Hong Kong, follwoed by her daughter - the "Red Lotus" of the title.
Whilst parts of it were good, there was little tension or much to fear from the apparent enemies of women, despite Ben's apparent wealth and the hatred of mixed marriages etc all around them. Even the tension between Red Lotus and her "enemy" could have been a little stronger. One of her more minor enemies seems easily brought off with money and some implied blackmail, and is never heard from again - all secondary characters seem to easily disappear and be forgotten throughout the book.
The above could give the impression this is a bad book - it's not, just not a great book.… (plus d'informations)