Title: Under-developed disappointment
Product review: I was greatly looking forward to this book, as I had heard and read so much about it. But I was ultimately disappointed. The language itself is beautiful and fluid, and the world it transports you to - San Francisco's Chinatown in the 19th century and the political and geographical climate in Chile - is fascinating. Her characters are interesting, but sorely under-developed and inconsistently characterized. In her plot, she alludes to the dangerous, beautiful, passionate and fantastical, but in the end only develops the conventional. There was so much potential in the culture and climate of this book and the language is so beautiful... it is such a shame she never focused and developed the story into what it could have been.
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