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chaoticmissadventures 's review for:
Four Treasures of the Sky
by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Wow this is heavy. Very well written, I recommend the audio, not only does the narrator do a great job it is nice to hear the authentically pronounced Chinese words.
I loved the interview with the author at the end where she talks about the inspiration (very awful - a hanging tree for Chinese folk in Idaho her father discovered) and what was fiction and non
An important read as we come out of the COVID mania where so many people were targets.
I really liked the plot device in which the main character is named after a literary character and that character haunts the main character throughout guiding and giving a sort of friendship. It was a well used and written idea.
There was a point towards the beginning that I struggled with, reading news, and many nonfiction books about human trafficking, it didn't make sense to me that the people who kidnapped Daiyu would keep her for a year teaching her english? To take all this care only to not feed her enough, and to ship her off to a brothel. This section of the book felt a bit too fantastical, even as it helped the rest of the book be wrapped up in a bow better.
I loved the interview with the author at the end where she talks about the inspiration (very awful - a hanging tree for Chinese folk in Idaho her father discovered) and what was fiction and non
An important read as we come out of the COVID mania where so many people were targets.
I really liked the plot device in which the main character is named after a literary character and that character haunts the main character throughout guiding and giving a sort of friendship. It was a well used and written idea.
There was a point towards the beginning that I struggled with, reading news, and many nonfiction books about human trafficking, it didn't make sense to me that the people who kidnapped Daiyu would keep her for a year teaching her english? To take all this care only to not feed her enough, and to ship her off to a brothel. This section of the book felt a bit too fantastical, even as it helped the rest of the book be wrapped up in a bow better.