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All Woman And Springtime (2012)

by Brandon W. Jones(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1616200774 (ISBN13: 9781616200770)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Algonquin

review 1: Hmmmm - I don't think this book lived up to its promise. The first section, set in North Korea, was intriguing. I have not read very much about what life is like there and what the residents are taught about the Great Leader, the Dear Leader, and the rest of the world outside the Hermit Kingdom. Assuming the author did his research, I felt like I was getting a glimpse of how it's possible to subjugate an entire population through disinformation.Once the action shifts to South Korea and then to America (Seattle), the book started to feel episodic and formulaic. Bad things happen, some of them irreparable, and then some good things happen at the end.This is another book from Elliott Bay's "Maiden Voyage" series - a first novel by an author who shows promise. So it's worth ke... moreeping an eye out for Jones' next book, to see where he goes from here.
review 2: If I hadn't read a lot about North Korea and seen some documentaries on TV about North Korea's brain washing, sex slaves in San Francisco and the sex trade in general, this book would have been a real eye opener. It was STILL a fascinating read and hard to believe it was written by a man. It is pretty raw but based on facts that "nice" people need to know. I found the characters mostly believable and the main fault was the ending which I found a little hard to believe. But stranger things have happened and this is America, not North Korea, so maybe...........A very different book and well worth reading. less

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