Books by Kay Bratt
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review 1: Life in Beijing can be hard, and more so when your husband has turned into an addict on pain-killers following a back injury, forcing Mari to make ends meet by taking photographs of tourists on a mangy camel at the Great Wall. Things start looking up a little when an American pho...
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review 1: This book has a lot to offer as far as information about the reality of orphanages in China. There was a lot of things I learned and even though some reviews were negative I do feel the author did try to make an effort to empathize with the workers there.Unfortunately it was poor...
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review 1: This is book 2 in The Scavenger's Daughters series. Having it on my kindle (free) I read it immediately following reading the The Scavenger's Daughters, which was a "3" for me. So. Tangled Vines picked up right where the 1st ends, which, in my opinion, is good. It's evident ...
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review 1: The concept was great. The time period and place was an excellent medium to create a story--I think it is a bit rare to read about this time period in China and that was a refreshing change to fiction. Sadly, the writing was just plain juvenile--mediocre to boredom I'd say. Qu...
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review 1: I finished the book for the same reason I started it: the story intrigued me. However the author's writing made it a more difficult read than it should have been. The writing felt juvenile to me, with bland, very basic descriptions of everything rather than painting a picture wit...
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review 1: Bitter Winds: Tales of the Scavenger's Daughters, Book 3Book Synopsis: Li Jin, given the name Dahlia by Benfu and Calli at her birth, tattooed with a beautiful little dahlia flower on her heel as a baby, was just a month old when she was kidnapped by Benfu's mother and sent ...
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review 1: Kay Brat found the magic in how to tell a heartbreaking story with a fairy tale ending without being contrived. The story read well and was complex enough to engage the reader. It also provided an education of the human trafficking issue in China without being academic. The book ...
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review 1: Another reviewer summarized this book beautifully; a trash collector takes in abandoned females in China. Naturally, he struggles to provide for them but their home is filled with love and contentment. As he ages he finds it harder to provide for them. I found that this novel ...
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review 1: Story Description:Amazon Publishing|2012|Trade Paperback|ISBN: 978 161 218 4463Many believe that those who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread. If that is so, the fates of Chai and Josi are weaved together and tied with a knot that cannot be brok...