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BEA BOOK #? I've lost track.

The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I read the other reviews and I don't know what I'm missing but this book was not 5 star worthy. It was brilliant in places but tedious in others. It all felt TOO contrived and TOO predictable.

WARNING SPOILER ALERT IN THE NEXT TWO PARAGRAPHS: Amy Tan likes to address the mother daughter relationship and does so again in this book although I could not relate. I would do ANYTHING to find my child even if I was told she was dead.

As I read the book I couldn't help but feel like we were romanticizing prostitution and that good prostitutes find a way out and live happily ever after (think Pretty Woman). I read the whole book and I learned a lot about courtesans and Shanghai. So if you like romance novels and if you like some historical fiction then this is not bad--not great--but not bad.



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YA

Divergent by Veronica Roth

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Entertaining car-ride read. I started the next one but I just never really got invested in the characters enough to finish book 2, Insurgent. My teen daughters raved about this book.



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