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A review by emilyusuallyreading
Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: Red Bird of the South, Southern China, A.D. 531 by Laurence Yep
2.0
What I Liked
Ancient China fascinates me after reading this story. I never realized there were different "tribes" of Chinese - and that Redbird's tribe tattooed their faces. This was certainly a learning experience.
Yu's character was by far my favorite. I enjoyed reading of Redbird's experience in the wealthy Chinese family household.
What I Didn't Like
This story moves slowly. Like snail's pace slowly. I enjoy a good action novel, but somehow the action and war tales of this one run dry.
I found myself putting this down again and again, unable to immerse myself into the excitement and feeling only boredom for the last 2/3rds of the story.
Did the author rely too much on history to make this too historical to have enjoyment within? Or was there so little historical information available for him that he struggled to come up with content at all? I don't even know the answer.
Ancient China fascinates me after reading this story. I never realized there were different "tribes" of Chinese - and that Redbird's tribe tattooed their faces. This was certainly a learning experience.
Yu's character was by far my favorite. I enjoyed reading of Redbird's experience in the wealthy Chinese family household.
What I Didn't Like
This story moves slowly. Like snail's pace slowly. I enjoy a good action novel, but somehow the action and war tales of this one run dry.
I found myself putting this down again and again, unable to immerse myself into the excitement and feeling only boredom for the last 2/3rds of the story.
Did the author rely too much on history to make this too historical to have enjoyment within? Or was there so little historical information available for him that he struggled to come up with content at all? I don't even know the answer.