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May 21, 2017Rubicat rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I wish I was more culturally educated - I enjoyed the mystery but the names were hard for me to keep track of since they were so unfamiliar. I generally do not have this problem with Thai or Vietnamese names and never with Japanese names but for some reason I had a real problem here. I was also distracted many times by the brutality of the many "revolutions" the various factions put their people through - it seemed as though the Chinese have no empathy or sympathy for their own countrymen - even those factions that purport to be for the people do nothing to make their lives better and every damned thing to makes lives miserable, frightened and just plain horrible. It's a real problem for me to get past what seems to me to be blatant stupidity and the actions of the powerless who are finally in positions of power and use that power only to pick on everyone else. Anyway, the story was interesting and I suppose the detective was good but I'll probably skip any future books in this series.