Donna Carrick

Interweaving of new and old China, mores, hopes, and dreams, coupled with one of China’s greatest exports – the adoption of it’s rejected girl babies to Western couples.

A fascinating and engrossing tale. I was 50 % thru the book before I looked up to see where I was.

A great fiction story against the backdrop of an historic event that devastated an entire area of the world. While, for most of the book, I felt the story was lost among all the facts and events that did occur and what the protagonist experienced as a relief worker, those facts and events actually made the story feel more real and believable to me. It brought a piece of history alive to me while providing some form of entertainment (the fictionalized story). The author did a great job of show more putting fiction and fact together. However, I did feel that there was too much emphasis on the fact part and, towards the end, the story felt a little rushed and almost unbelievable. As a whole, I enjoyed this book and would definitely recommend it to others. show less

Free on Kindle. Decent writing, kept my interest. Spoilers abound. It became obvious who killed the victim, and I'm not sure it all made sense. It is a sad story, but maybe she freed her sister...I don't know.

Thriller wrapped around one woman's search for her family history in China.