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A review by dreamofbookspines
Red Azalea by Anchee Min
2.0
Anchee Min's writing style is both beautiful and exhausting. She uses vivid metaphors that are often quite poetic, while at the same time is terrible at writing dialogue. It's all bunched into long paragraphs, which can make it difficult to parse who is speaking at any given moment. (Also her gullibility is occasionally irritating, as when she trusts her competition is telling the truth about a stupid decision. First lesson of communist China: trust no one.)
I found myself thoroughly confused at the end of the book. Felt like the point of the last third of it was missing. I think Min's editor could have done a better job paring it down.
My "didn't like it" rating of this book had little to do with the writing (aside from the lack of thorough editing) and far more to do with my sense of disappointment in the author's choice of partners. Which is hardly fair of me but there you go.
I found myself thoroughly confused at the end of the book. Felt like the point of the last third of it was missing. I think Min's editor could have done a better job paring it down.
My "didn't like it" rating of this book had little to do with the writing (aside from the lack of thorough editing) and far more to do with my sense of disappointment in the author's choice of partners. Which is hardly fair of me but there you go.