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China Blues Ki Longfellow 9780975925577 Books

Well, I'm definitely not with the crowd on this one. The first chapter was good. It seemed a bit slow but there was excitement too. These characters seemed real. Then the story jumped ahead in time. When I read the description of one of the main characters, "...utterly selfish, and utterly charming." Excuse me? How do those attributes go together? Not in my world. And as the story plodded along I observed absolutely nothing charming about Lizzie. As the story progressed from here, instead of character development it seemed like the author was trying to cram everything possible that she researched about famous San Fransicans (and nationally known mobsters, and Hollywood figures) of the era into every paragraph. Character development by association? It was SO tedious. Even skimming the text I couldn't handle it. Pages and pages of "name dropping" followed by a lot of Lizzie's whining. I generally do not give star ratings to books that I didn't finish. In this case, though, I thought there seemed to be so few people who didn't love this book (per Goodreads reviews) that a person who was thinking of reading the book and was scanning reviews should have access to the opinion of someone who found the book so boring and trite that they quit after 15% (per my Kindle) of the book.


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China Blues Ki Longfellow 9780975925577 Books Reviews

Set in 1920s San Francisco, this story is a glorious mix of mob politics, personal drama and romantic entanglement. Characters spring from the page fully realized and intreguing. Longfellow is a true master of her craft.
I stumbled upon the original book at the library about 10 years ago and was immediately taken in by the setting and the era, as well as the author's style of writing.

This is a story of a spoiled and willful young matron/socialite with a climber for a husband. Lizzie is shallow, self-absorbed and self-centered. How she grows and begins to develop into a different person is the thread that runs through this story of Chinese gangs, prostitutes, and others of shady means who inhabit the underbelly of San Francisco during Prohibition.

I adored this book, and now own an old hardcover copy. Read it along with Shirley Streshinsky's "A Time Between," also an incredible novel of San Francisco in the 1920s.
Well, I'm definitely not with the crowd on this one. The first chapter was good. It seemed a bit slow but there was excitement too. These characters seemed real. Then the story jumped ahead in time. When I read the description of one of the main characters, "...utterly selfish, and utterly charming." Excuse me? How do those attributes go together? Not in my world. And as the story plodded along I observed absolutely nothing charming about Lizzie. As the story progressed from here, instead of character development it seemed like the author was trying to cram everything possible that she researched about famous San Fransicans (and nationally known mobsters, and Hollywood figures) of the era into every paragraph. Character development by association? It was SO tedious. Even skimming the text I couldn't handle it. Pages and pages of "name dropping" followed by a lot of Lizzie's whining. I generally do not give star ratings to books that I didn't finish. In this case, though, I thought there seemed to be so few people who didn't love this book (per Goodreads reviews) that a person who was thinking of reading the book and was scanning reviews should have access to the opinion of someone who found the book so boring and trite that they quit after 15% (per my ) of the book.