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***Jeannie Lin's novella introducing the pleasure quarter known as the North Hamlet, the setting of The Lotus Palace***
Tang Dynasty China, 823 A.D.
Musician Jia needs a valuable book of poems by a famous courtesan to buy her freedom...and she believes Luo Cheng has taken it. Her attempt to steal the book from him fails, but the tall and powerful scholar unexpectedly offers to help her quest! But when they finally find the book--and the arousing poems and artwork inside--Jia's longing for freedom is replaced with a new kind of desire for Cheng....
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Author Cindy Pon has been raving about Jeannie Lin's historical romances, so when Capturing the Silken Thief came up as a freebie on , I decided to give it a try.
This is a quick story, meant to introduce Lin's Lotus Palace novel. Set in Tang Dynasty China, this is the story of a scholar and a musician. The musician, Jia, believes scholar Luo Cheng has stolen a "pillow book," a rather risque journal written by a famous courtesan. The sale of the book will be enough to buy Jia's freedom from her indentured position as a musician. Luo Cheng isn't the scholar she was looking for, however, and the two team up to regain the book. What follows is a bit "Gift of the Magi," but for a novella, the story is appropriately paced and, for want of a better word, adorable.
I'll definitely check out more of Lin's books after reading this one.
This review appeared previously on Goodreads.com
Capturing a Silken Thief by Jeannie Lin was a quick, fun read. Set in Changan during the Tang Dynasty in China 823 A.D, we follow the heroine, Yang Jia-jing, and the hero, Luo Cheng through about 56 pages of a richly detailed novella.
Jia is a young song girl who plays the Pipa while Luo Cheng is a farmer boy who has studied for the Imperial Exams, which he has already failed once. If he fails again, he will be forced to return home in shame.
Jia mistakes Cheng for a scholar in possession of a rare treasured book. Eventually, the end up searching for the book together. It's a brief romp through Changan, but full of fun and adventure.
More happens, but you'll have to read Capturing the Silken Thief for yourself to find out what, and how the story ends.
I enjoyed reading this short novella immensely, and it was my first time reading Jeannie Lin. I'll be reading more of her books for sure. (Come back next week to find out what I thought of Jeannie Lin's book, "butterfly Swords".
On a Star rating, this is a **** for sure. Leaning toward 4.25 stars. I do suggest this if you want a quick read and haven't read Ms. Lin before.
Capturing the Silken Thief is a historical romance novella that takes place in 823 A.D. during the Tang Dynasty in China. I wasn't sure how I would like the novella format. I like historical romance but I was sort of unsure whether or not you could tell a good story, let alone a good romance (love takes time usually!), in such a short amount of space. But I really like Jeannie Lin's writing and thoroughly enjoyed The Dragon and The Pearl so I tried to have faith. And you know what, it all turned out just fine!
I really enjoyed this book. It's a quick read with it being a novella and all. I was impressed with how much detail Lin was able to get in with so little space to work with. Jia is a great character. She's trying to buy her freedom, which was a great cost for a woman at that time. She's brave and cunning. She goes to steal a book of poems of an infamous courtesan from Luo Cheng, a gentleman studying to take a test to become a government official (a process that I found sort of fascinating). Things don't turn out the way Jia plans and she and Luo Cheng end up falling for each other hard and quickly. Hotness and passion ensues!
One reason that I love historical fiction of all stripes is that the books have the ability to take you to someplace that you've never been before. Lin gives the reader a great sense of what life was like during the Tang Dynasty. You can definitely imagine that you're there.
Bottom line this is a perfect book for those wanting to break their fear of novellas. Great stories really can be told in fewer words.
I've enjoyed reviewing most of Ms. Lin's Tang Dynasty novels and short stories The Taming of Mei Lin,Butterfly Swords,The Dragon and the Pearl,The Lady's Scandalous Night,My Fair Concubine, and An Illicit Temptation. However these are part of a couple of extended series involving the same basic events and cast of characters; how would Ms. Lin fare in writing a standalone short story about two characters we've never met before and would never meet again? (I haven't yet reviewed her contemporary standalone short story Pieces of Paper A short story set in Tokyo either.)
As it turned out, I needn't have worried. In just 56 pages and 6 short chapters Ms. Lin spins an entrancing (and fully complete tale) about a couple of do-not-belongs (a dirt poor farm boy prodigy here to retake the triennial national exams along with China's finest young scholars having failed his first time out and a musician in the pleasure district desperate to pay off her crippling debts and thereby gain her freedom) thrown together by the circumstance of a stolen rare book long enough to recognize kindred spirits in each other before the very same circumstance tears them apart.
How do you evaluate the truth of love? By the sacrifices one willingly makes for it.
Exquisite. It's just a darn shame I don't read books like this as far as you know.
Note Ms. Lin claims herein that her portrayal of drunken, pleasure-seeking scholars contrasted with the behavior of our studious hero was partially inspired by her own college experiences,...
which leaves one to wonder if Ms. Lin was the kind of student who fell asleep with her head in a book, or....
Note For full disclosure I received this ebook from the author in return for agreeing to review it.
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