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spinescens 's review for:
Portrait of a Thief
by Grace D. Li
Congrats! You managed to make a heist story dull and boring!
In all seriousness: the tone of this was not what I was expecting at all. This could have been really good; a Robin Hood type story with a focus on Chinese-American diaspora but unfortunately it reads more like a 'dark academia' story but instead of a murder being the central event that brings our cast together, its a heist. And just to top it off, the characters didn't stand out to me either.
Babel by R.F Kuang did the 'artefacts of colonialism' or 'unrightful spoils of war' specifically surrounding Chinese history so much better.
Planning a heist in GoogleDocs and Zoom? Yeah no wonder these motherfuckers got caught...
In all seriousness: the tone of this was not what I was expecting at all. This could have been really good; a Robin Hood type story with a focus on Chinese-American diaspora but unfortunately it reads more like a 'dark academia' story but instead of a murder being the central event that brings our cast together, its a heist. And just to top it off, the characters didn't stand out to me either.
Babel by R.F Kuang did the 'artefacts of colonialism' or 'unrightful spoils of war' specifically surrounding Chinese history so much better.