Title: Nice attempt, BUT. . .
Product review: rainlight is McGhee's first novel, and is just that: a respectable attempt at a first novel.I was disappointed to find how hollow Rainlight was. There is little light and a lot of tear jerking melodrama without much substance. The author completely fails in creating credible characters, let alone allowing each of them to have identifiably different voices.Most of the chinese material seemed like a forced interjection, lacking cohesion with the rest of the narrative.There is tenderness and a sense of loss inherent in the author's tone, but she fails to bolster that with solid, identifiably credible characters. Work on those voices!!
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