A review by amandatastic
The Diplomat's Daughter by Karin Tanabe

3.0

I've never read anything about living in a Japanese-American or German-American internment camp, or about Jewish refugees living in Shanghai, so I appreciated this book for bringing some of those places to light. However, this book is first and foremost a romance (or three, really). It wasn't bad, but it wasn't what I was expecting or really looking for. I also think all the main characters were a little too perfect... all only children and adored by their parents, all very intelligent, all from well-off families, etc etc. I feel like none of them had a character flaw (other than being Japanese or German or Jewish). I did enjoy the writing style and the ending.