This book taught me a great deal about China but also bored me brittle in many places. Why do some writers feel the need to outline all the roads that their characters travel down by car? It’s like listening to your great uncle relay his journey to the party once he arrives. Dull. There is rather a lot of that in this book and very little happens until the last chapters when the plot deepens and improves. It is an interesting premise.
I bought this book as a set of three so I will read the others in the series, I am undecided as to whether I would otherwise, I feel overall as if I have been taught something by an unentertaining supply teacher.