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luaucow 's review for:
Silver Phoenix
by Cindy Pon
I liked the way this one used Asian traditions and folktales (Chinese?) to create a fantasy world. It was interesting for me to learn about and I think someone who grew up with these traditions would appreciate seeing characters from stories they'd heard as children. I didn't love this one as much as the revewers though (it got a stared review from Booklist). I thought the events that happen within the book were thrown together, bam, bam, bam without a nice flow from one to the next. I also thought it was interesting that they never had to endure the hardships of travel - tThere is pretty much always food and some place to stay.