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Cargando... The Flower Boat Girl: A novel based on a true storypor Larry Feign
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Fast-paced plotting, evocative prose and attention to detail ... Will satisfy lovers of thoughtful historical fiction. “A simply riveting read from first page to last.” A vivid and often compelling adventure with a sweeping, cinematic feel. Convincingly renders Cheng’s stranger-than-fiction trajectory to pirate royalty, punctuated by ripe Cantonese profanity.
Her father traded away her youth. Sea bandits stole her freedom. She has one way to get them back: Become the most powerful pirate in the world. South China coast, 1801: Sold as a child to a floating brothel, 26-year-old Yang has finally bought her freedom, only to be kidnapped by a brutal pirate gang and forced to marry their leader. Dragged through stormy seas and lawless bandit havens, Yang must stay scrappy to survive. She embeds herself in the dark business of piracy, carving out her role against the resistance of powerful bandit leaders and Cheung Po Tsai, her husband's flamboyant male concubine. Caught between bitter rivals fighting for mastery over the pirates-and for her heart-Yang faces a choice between two things she never dreamed might be hers: power or love. Based on real people and events, The Flower Boat Girl is the story of a young woman who, against all odds, shaped history on her own terms. "A breathtaking saga of a real life heroine, so richly alive that the pages seem to breathe."- Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author (Pictures of You, Cruel Beautiful World) No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I rarely review a book that I did not finish but this one requires comment. The author uses crude and course descriptions of Yang's sex acts with men. You know that a man wrote a book when this type of language is used. Women just don't use certain descriptions. I am surprised that the author chose a woman as his main character because it is hard for men to accurately write about women and vice versa. I made it to page 70. There was no explanation of how Yang got into various situations, just one nasty sex act after another. How is the reader to know what the story is about when you go from one rape to another? The reader at least needs to know something about the main character other than she is being raped by many men over 70 pages. In those 70 pages she was still a sex slave, I presume. There is no way to tell from these pages where we are in the plot.
I am surprised that the book has had many good reviews, half of them from women. At a minimum I would call this novel soft core porn. Skip it. ( )