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bethanybeyondthejordan 's review for:
Four Treasures of the Sky
by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
I like reading historical fiction about times and places I don’t know much about.
Also this was a hard book to read.
It bore a tiny resemblance, at least at first, to The Sleeping Dictionary, which I still think about often. And also, later, to A Girl Called Samson.
All three contain a brave resilient character who struggles to find (and ultimately carved out) her identity.
The author is a good writer. And yet I was glad to have finished.
I did keep asking, how did Jacob Li live and work so close to men and yet they never suspected he was a she?
Also this was a hard book to read.
It bore a tiny resemblance, at least at first, to The Sleeping Dictionary, which I still think about often. And also, later, to A Girl Called Samson.
All three contain a brave resilient character who struggles to find (and ultimately carved out) her identity.
The author is a good writer. And yet I was glad to have finished.
I did keep asking, how did Jacob Li live and work so close to men and yet they never suspected he was a she?