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Disappearing Moon Cafe by Sky Lee

7 reviews

devirnis's review against another edition

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challenging emotional

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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mshusky's review

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dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I got this book as it was touted to be a Canadian literary work, an award winning novel. I had read the Jade Peony (also set in Vancouver) and was hoping for something similar.

This was the audio book, so maybe I needed to read the printed work as the narrator did not differentiate between the characters and I ended up having to jot down some of who the characters were as the story seemed to cover 5 generations of a Chinese family, and as it jumped randomly between the generations it was incredibly difficult to work out where in the story you were.

It was inconsistantly written, sometimes it was the literary work I was expecting, and then it was like reading a bizarre contemporary page turner. As for the incest plotline - what was the point of that?

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