Okay, I told a lie... Dorothy Eden did an AMAZING job with her descriptions of the land and the time period. Despite that, it is full of her deft writing and her surprisingly textured characters, who tend to be more complex than one would expect in a genre novel. MYSTICALBEING # DND. The ending took me a tiny bit by surprise. DON'T NORMALIZE PEDOPHELIA! I feel like I didn't technically read this.
Many species struggled to survive in the icefield. Even though I didn't like it that much, I would still recommend it to other historical fiction lovers. I told myself "Ok I will sit through this as an anthropologist would and just see how 1975 looked at us Asian folks..... " and I continued on. So i received this book for free from the little 84 year old asian lady that runs the used book shop in Cambria, California. And with each new draft of the will the reader comes closer to the heart of the Carrington mystery, as intricate and subtle as a Chinese puzzle. I wasn't too thrilled at first with the alternating story-lines, but it does work in the end. That's pretty sad, but true. Fun to see the way it went back and forth between 1900 and 1975 to weave the family's past and present, unfolding the secrets along the way. Controls in day of dragons. The unchallenged mistress of the dynastic novel has written her most ambitious and captivating novel to date. Things go reasonably well at first, including a invitation to the ladies in the Legation Quarter to tea with the Dowager Empress Tz'u-Hsi. The novel shuttles back and forth between 1899 Peking and 1970s suburban England, following the fortunes of a family once involved with the East Asian antiquities trade.
Do I tear off the cover and keep it? I just couldn't get into this story and I didn't really give a hoot about any of the characters. In all reality it would be 1. It is a story full of war and mystery and ghosts and plundered treasures, all wrapped around a dysfunctional family.
Coupled with the historical Chinese element and its last Empress - thats my jam. Sweeping from China to the Thames Valley, spanning seventy-five years in the fortunes of a great trading dynasty, Dorothy Eden spins a spellbinding tale, of three generations of the Carrington family whose dealings in priceless antiques take them to Peking on the even of the Boxer Rebellion and embroil them in a struggle that will determine their destinies and reach out to touch their heirs even to the present day. I just don't have much to say about this book. Dragon who controls time novel writing month. I haven't read many books about this rebellion, but it's always been an interest of mine and so to find a book set in this time period made me dying to read it. The poor thing had her shop flood this winter.... Even though her lack of a backbone annoyed me, I still loved reading her viewpoint. She was best known for her many mystery and romance books as well as short stories that were published in periodicals. Eden vividly evokes her two locales.
This was definitely not "can't put down" and took me longer to read that other longer novels. I really did like Amelia, but she annoyed me. I can't see why Amelia loved him so, I would have left him). Overall, I really liked Dorothy Eden's writing style and her word usage. Shimmering with suspense and enchantment, The Time of the Dragon is intriguing new territory filled with Dorothy Eden's old magic. There she writes and revises the will disposing of the fabulous Carrington collection of stolen Chinese art. She moved to England in 1954 after taking a trip around the world and falling in love with the country. First published October 1, 1975. It still, however, is a neatly packaged mystery, albeit one whose twists and turns most adept readers will see coming early on. It certainly left this reader with the desire to look at more historic Chinese art!
1899-1900 Peking during the Boxer Rebellion in juxtaposition with 1975 mystery. I guess she missed the whole Womens Liberation movement that started in the 1960s. 284 pages, Hardcover. Then the next chapter started and we find out that the other love interest of the 30ish year old husband is the 13-year old governess he talked his wife into hiring. Its romance - not my genre but I'm on a wine tasting holiday with my love so I figure why not. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, spanning the time from the Boxer Rebellion in China to 1975 England.
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