Wednesday, April 28, 2010

bookies

A coworker picked up this from a Random House summer preview for me. It's by a Chinese-Canadian first time author.


A Spy in the House (The Agency, #1) A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee

My rating: 4 of 5 stars
It's a bit uneven, but (a) conscious emphasis on strong female characters, and the frustrations of women in the Victorian period -- in a non-clichéd way; (b) the heroine is half-Chinese. In the end that made for a different sort of read, which was interesting.

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2 comments:

BrotherPaul said...

And she had a skirt that unfolded into a grappling gun and ladder, and she had a dirigible and a trusty French man-servant. So that helped.

London Mabel said...

It would have!

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