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stlorca 's review for:
An Excess Male
by Maggie Shen King
An Excess Male is drawn vividly and sharply, with nary a foot put wrong in the storytelling. Each of the characters has a distinctive “voice”; the author doesn’t give in to stereotype and instead gives the reader a reason to relate to the main characters. I particularly liked the author’s patchwork solution to the aggression of young males—let’s face it, millions of twentysomething dudes without a hope of female companionship would make a formidable army of terrorists if some charismatic sociopath came along—and it certainly seems like something the Chinese government would implement.
I didn’t really care for one character’s casual dismissal of marrying a foreign-born Korean or Vietnamese woman; she describes it as “marrying a sign-language wife”. It seems to me you would take it where you can find it. Other than that, it’s bold and solid start to finish.
I didn’t really care for one character’s casual dismissal of marrying a foreign-born Korean or Vietnamese woman; she describes it as “marrying a sign-language wife”. It seems to me you would take it where you can find it. Other than that, it’s bold and solid start to finish.