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taemon94 's review for:
The Blonde Geisha
by Jina Bacarr
The book clearly states EROTIC NOVEL under the title so i don't know how any of the other reviews didn't see that, but okay. You can't compare a book like this that mainly focuses on a gaiji 'foreigner' and not a native born Japanese girl like in Memoirs of a Geisha. It just doesn't compare to it and isn't fair to the author. You should look at this book as its own.
I thought The Blonde Geisha was an enjoyable read. It's not horrible but it's also not great. The reason I gave it four stars is because I approached it as an English book, not a Japanese one. I believe the only people that can actually accuse this book of anything of the culture it's trying to represent are people who have been studying Japanese for the past 5 years or more of their life, native born or the Japanese themselves. If you're none of the above then your views of their culture may be wrong. There's a lot to their culture and if Memoirs of a Geisha taught anybody something, that is that it takes YEARS to become a Geisha. I'm sure the author skipped over it because this book is technically not all about the culture, it's about the main character falling in love and the EROTIC stuff that happens in-between that.
It's not a book about becoming a Geisha but about a blonde foreigner who falls in love and happens to be in Japan and hiding out in a Geisha house. Pick it up thinking that then it shouldn't be that bad of a read.
I thought The Blonde Geisha was an enjoyable read. It's not horrible but it's also not great. The reason I gave it four stars is because I approached it as an English book, not a Japanese one. I believe the only people that can actually accuse this book of anything of the culture it's trying to represent are people who have been studying Japanese for the past 5 years or more of their life, native born or the Japanese themselves. If you're none of the above then your views of their culture may be wrong. There's a lot to their culture and if Memoirs of a Geisha taught anybody something, that is that it takes YEARS to become a Geisha. I'm sure the author skipped over it because this book is technically not all about the culture, it's about the main character falling in love and the EROTIC stuff that happens in-between that.
It's not a book about becoming a Geisha but about a blonde foreigner who falls in love and happens to be in Japan and hiding out in a Geisha house. Pick it up thinking that then it shouldn't be that bad of a read.