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The Secret Mandarin (2009)

by Sara Sheridan(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1847561896 (ISBN13: 9781847561893)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Avon Books

review 1: I did not care for the characters in this book. I found Robert to be a horrible bully and Mary(his sister-in-law) to be a wuss. She lacked any confidence in herself. It was only when sheand her brother-in-law where traveling in the interior of China that she showed some confidenceand intelligence's. The story line was ok but I would have liked to see a stronger women fromthe start. To finish this book I skipped a couple of chapters to see how it ended.
review 2: I really didn't like this. It is told in the first person by a heroine who is so inconsistently characterised that the reader never gets to know her. The villain-turned-hero (based on a real person!!) is a cold, brutal, selfish bully who treats her appallingly, but with whom she nevertheless falls in... more love - not at all credible. He is also the victim of dire characterisation and suffers from some incredible lurches in personality. The story, set in China, does have some convincing background information, but loses pace in the middle section and becomes tedious. So, badly characterised, poorly plotted and lacking in pace. Not one to keep. less

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