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caresays's review against another edition
3.0
I guess I'm being generous and would actually give this 2.5 stars. It was...okay? Extremely unsatisfying follow-up to the first book. It's basically a parallel of the Chinese Revolution, not even thinly veiled. It was kind of like reading an account of the revolution, except there were some magical elements and some tenuous threads connecting it to the first Jin-Shei book.
I also found Amais nowhere as sympathetic as Tai for some reason. Perhaps it was her romanticizing of jin-shei. I found myself missing other narrators. It just wasn't as nicely done as the first book and the last 80 or so pages were very odd. All of a sudden it switches to all italics and in first-person? It was a little bizarre.
I also found Amais nowhere as sympathetic as Tai for some reason. Perhaps it was her romanticizing of jin-shei. I found myself missing other narrators. It just wasn't as nicely done as the first book and the last 80 or so pages were very odd. All of a sudden it switches to all italics and in first-person? It was a little bizarre.
nikkijazzie's review against another edition
4.0
Different from the first book - not in a bad way, just different. It took me quite a while to read, but I did truly enjoy it, the way that Alma Alexander writes is stunningly lyrical and I hope to see another of her books soon.
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