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A review by _ash0_
Boxers by Gene Luen Yang
2.0
Premise was interesting and considering it is a historical fiction, I expected the characters and story to seem more realistic. I just don’t like anything from this author. I found American Chinese also pretty meh. The focus is more on the magical realism and less on the characterization and plot. I never got attached to any character so did not feel anything when someone died in the book. The artwork was good.
This book is about the boxer rebellion in China where the Chinese fought westerners/Christians who were converting Chinese into their religion. There is a war between foreigners and this boxers rebellion group along with help from imperial army.
The ending did not make much sense.
What would have worked is writing this as a nonfiction perhaps as I knew nothing about this rebellion. Instead of reading a silly fiction, reading about the real rebellion would have been more interesting.
This book is about the boxer rebellion in China where the Chinese fought westerners/Christians who were converting Chinese into their religion. There is a war between foreigners and this boxers rebellion group along with help from imperial army.
The ending did not make much sense.
What would have worked is writing this as a nonfiction perhaps as I knew nothing about this rebellion. Instead of reading a silly fiction, reading about the real rebellion would have been more interesting.