Pai Kit Fai

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The Concubine's Daughter (2009) 296 kappaletta

Red Lotus (2008) 59 kappaletta

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Kanoninen nimi: Fai, Pai Kit
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Red Lotus: A Rare Beauty, a Fierce Heart, a Destiny… Tekijä: Pai Kit Fai

A novel set in China in the 1920s about Siu Sing, the daughter of a Chinese mother and the foreign devil ship's captain who rescued her from death. Raised until the age of twelve by an elderly Taoist sage who is master of the White Crane and trained as one of his last disciples, she is sold into slavery after he's assassinated. After spending her teenage years in an opium den, she begins a quest to find Ben Deverill, the father she never knew, and to reclaim her birthright.

This book is split across two women: Li-Xia, who works her way from being the unwanted daughter of a wealthy man's concubine to the wife of one of the richest Eurasian men in Hong Kong, follwoed by her daughter - the "Red Lotus" of the title.

Whilst parts of it were good, there was little tension or much to fear from the apparent enemies of women, despite Ben's apparent wealth and the hatred of mixed marriages etc all around them. Even the tension between Red Lotus and her "enemy" could have been a little stronger. One of her more minor enemies seems easily brought off with money and some implied blackmail, and is never heard from again - all secondary characters seem to easily disappear and be forgotten throughout the book.

The above could give the impression this is a bad book - it's not, just not a great book.… (lisätietoja)

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nordie | 3 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Oct 14, 2023 |

The Concubine's Daughter: A Novel Tekijä: Pai Kit Fai

I got half-way through this book and couldn't bring myself to finish. It wasn't horrible, it just wasn't that good. The plot was super predictable and I just didn't care enough about the characters to make it worth my time.

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tiasreads | 32 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 11, 2019 |

Red Lotus: A Rare Beauty. A Fierce Heart. A Destiny… Tekijä: Pai Kit Fai

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8305005

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BoekenTrol71 | 3 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 31, 2013 |

The Concubine's Daughter: A Novel Tekijä: Pai Kit Fai

Fai's imagery is beautiful and does manage to transport the reader to China in the early twentieth century. However, the book is divided into two parts, and it would have been better - and helped with pacing - if it was two seperate books, one focusing on Li-Xia, the title character, and the other on Siu-Sing, her daughter.

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bookwyrmm | 32 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 25, 2012 |

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