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kmosie's review against another edition
4.0
Hard to get into at first but by the end I was hooked. When I bought it I didn't realize it was a series but plan on reading the first 2 books.
quinnster's review against another edition
4.0
I really liked this last book in the Red Princess trilogy. I wish there were more, but I'm happy with the ending - if it's really an ending.
nikim_burg's review against another edition
3.0
A mystery about the Three Gorges Dam. A bit predictable, but enjoyable.
anjanette's review against another edition
5.0
The entire series is good. In he last hundred pages of this, the action begins to barrel along at a breakneck speed, but then it seems to throw on the brakes and return to the slower pace of the rest of the book. I think I enjoyed this one most of the three because of the folklore elements.
tresdem's review against another edition
3.0
It's pretty okay. I liked it. Got a little draggy here and there and the end was a bit confusing but otherwise I'm content with it. Furthermore though it was the third book in the series (and I've yet to read the first two) I was able to read and see this as a standalone. Kind of interested in reading it's predecessors as well should I come across them.
my_potato_farm's review against another edition
1.0
This book is probably a fun, well-written read, but I couldn't continue past the first few pages. Gory violence, with a small child in serious physical and emotional danger...sorry, can't do it, especially when it's right up front before a context is established.
ksparks's review against another edition
4.0
thoroughly enjoyable international thriller novel. great history/cultural details. I thought the murder details were unnecessarily grisly. but it was definitely a great follow up to the other two books in the series. her plots are very inventive I think and as one writer wrote on the back "documentary social detail that reeks of freshly raked muck." All of her books are flawed and only borderline believable but they are so interesting I don't care. I like mysteries that teach me something I don't know and Lisa See's books definitely do this.
tresdem's review
3.0
It's pretty okay. I liked it. Got a little draggy here and there and the end was a bit confusing but otherwise I'm content with it. Furthermore though it was the third book in the series (and I've yet to read the first two) I was able to read and see this as a standalone. Kind of interested in reading it's predecessors as well should I come across them.
kathleenitpdx's review
3.0
Nice mystery. I liked the background of the Three Gorges Dam and the removal of the people behind the dam, who have been there for generations unknown. A little story of the local man from Bashan who had taken government money to move to some far frontier area, found out what it would cost to dig a well and came back and the old lady who guarded the back gate at the Panda guest house who could not conceive of leaving are indications of the what the government faced.