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A review by bellatora
Night in Shanghai by Nicole Mones
3.0
Thomas Greene is a classically trained African-American who gets recruited to play at a jazz orchestra in Shanghai in 1936. He falls straight into love-lust with Song Yuhua, who has been sold into slavery to the crime lord that owns the jazz club where Thomas works.
The history felt very solid, but the pace was far too slow. The love story was also underwhelming. Thomas is with Song because...she's pretty? And he got tired of his Russian professional mistress? It clearly didn't work for me and I could never buy into the supposed grand passion of Thomas and Song's love story as Shanghai falls into war.
The history felt very solid, but the pace was far too slow. The love story was also underwhelming. Thomas is with Song because...she's pretty? And he got tired of his Russian professional mistress? It clearly didn't work for me and I could never buy into the supposed grand passion of Thomas and Song's love story as Shanghai falls into war.