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Title: Like two books in one - one exquisite, one conventional
Review: The first two-thirds of the book is mesmerizing. But the end of the book is so romance-novel conventional (and creepy - pedophilia is not romantic in any context), that I felt terribly used, as though I had been duped into reading a Harlequin romance disguising itself as literature. The ending also felt rushed, like the author realized his deadline was looming and had to finish the novel right away. There's no doubt that this book is very well researched, but that research might have been put to better use with a non-fiction account of geisha life.
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