Tiananmen Square
by Lai Wen
Genre: General Fiction (Adult),Literary Fiction,Women's Fiction
I'm old enough t0o remember the events surrounding this novel.
I love books that are about lives in other cultures but sadly this wasn't a great fit for me.
Its a good story, well written but just didn't pull me in. I found Lai quite a selfish character, and hard to like. At other times she was very innocent and the dangers of what they were proposing didn't seem to have occurred to her.
Her friends were a strange group, I found it hard to get a sense of any of them. I think maybe that's my biggest issue, the characters just didn't feel real, I couldn't empathise with them, didn't connect with their problems.
That's on me – not all books suit all readers and I tend to enjoy those based strongly around characters and their every day lives. I can see others love this book, but for me it was just an OK read.
Stars: two and a half, it was a good book, just not a good fit for me.
ARC supplied by netgalley and publishers
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