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The Only Girl in China

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Impressive debut novel! It built suspense and engaged the reader with strong character development. If delving into sex work in future writing, anti-oppressive training advised.

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I'm a big fan of mysteries, and I enjoyed this unique novel that takes place in China. Ed and Lorrie are two UNICEF volunteers who want to teach in a small Chinese town for their own secret reasons. The plot is propulsive and I read this in a single setting. My copy was an ARC, which had a good bit of editing left and that made for a few rough patches and the writing is only mediocre and the dialogue sometimes irritating (like Ed's affectation of saying "For serious", which makes you take him, well, not so seriously). But overall, the plot makes it all worthwhile. Solid debut.

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