connie_rea 's review for:

Dreams of Joy by Lisa See

3.0

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need to give this one 3 and 1/2. I liked how it made me really like Shanghai Girls more then I did before reading this sequel to it :-) I hated the first 2/3rds of this book. I hated how Joy acted. I hated how she blamed everyone. I hated the pity party she threw herself on a daily basis. I hated the way her mother kept quiet.....Yada Yada Yada....I loved the book from the moment Joy got married until the end of the novel. I wish Mae had been a bigger part. I wish the novel had told the story of the following month. What happened. How it all worked out...but still over all happy with the ending. Not my favorite See book....