I really need to sort my reading choices out. I thought I would like this book with lots of intrigue and sexual politics inside the Forbidden City but nah, it's dross. But dross I have devoured over the past few days and been addicted to!
It's so badly written I sometimes thought it was translated from Chinese by a Second Language student but it wasn't . I loved Memoirs of a Geisha but this is a poor cousin. The characters are bland, one dimensional puppets and the first half was pretty dull.
Plus my cheap, naff copy was badly printed and some of the pages were just pages of blackness, so I had to just guess the content. All in all just a tad unsatisfying!
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