Such a sweet innocent book in the style of a Chinese Romeo & Juliet. I enjoyed the naiveté of the lead character and all her internal chatter as she was trying to figure out men in general and her one love in particular! A book set in Chairman Mao's time with nervousness of times discussed, but without the horrors of The Wild Swan, and The Shanghai Ladies, etc. So just a wonderful light read, AFTER you understood the horrific times through the previously mentioned books. The language was most poetic! It reads like a romance novel without super explicit stuff. The plot is reminiscent of soap dramas where someone withholds information and all manner of misunderstandings abound, innocent virgins unintentionally turning on men because they are innocently (and of course charmingly) blind to their own allure. I would have loved this book as a teenager - I remember idolising angsty male heroes - but I don't think it is my taste anymore. I am not writing this off as a bad book, but the reader would have to be in the right age group to enjoy it. Am not sorry I read it, but probably wouldn't read it again.
Do You like book Amor Bajo El Espino Blanco (2012)?
A truly enjoyable book to read. I would recommend this book to everyone.
—irism89
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