Books by Kate Furnivall
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review 1: Interesting historical fiction. Set in British Ruled Colonial Malay right before the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Japanese invasion of Malaysia and Singapore. Rubber and Tea plantations and the wealthy Brits who lived like royalty. Also a love story = a wealthy planters wife w...
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review 1: I found this book to be a very interesting read. It has many layers; one of which is autism. The author gives a good amount of time to the characteristics of this disease in one of her major characters. Other subjects I noted are: archeology in Egyptian tombs, unexpected roman...
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review 1: Amazingly well-written, with an action-packed beginning that hooked me right away. I wish I had read this book before the others in the series, since my knowledge of what would eventually happen to certain characters took away some of the suspense at times. The author did a nice...
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review 1: The reason we read historical fiction is not for the history. It’s for the fiction. We fall in love with a character, and whether she lives in Mongolia or Austin, ancient Rome or modern India, we want to know what it’s like to be her, to know her, and to fall in love, just as she...
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review 1: Kate Furnivall is my favorite author right now. I love everything she has written, and The White Pearl is no different.I love the description Furnivall uses to describe the setting and the characters. I felt connected to Malaya and the south Pacific, as well as to her characters....
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review 1: I think I enjoyed this book more than the previous novel, but of this series the prequel about Valentina and Jens is still my favourite. I disliked how Lydia kept ignoring Alexei and Chang An Lo's warnings about passing notes into the prison to her father, she knew it was dangero...
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review 1: The Concubine's Secret) is the sequel to The Russian Concubine. Our heroine, Lydia has since moved on with her life, leaving China and her Chinese lover, Chang An Lo, to search for her father back in her country land, Russia. She is still somewhat in shock to learn that her fathe...
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review 1: This book started out so promising, and then went slowly, very slowly downhill for me. Great initial story about a girl trying to find her father in war torn Germany during WW2. Then at about page 300 they started into this ridiculous teenage love story about her and this Chinese...