I fully expected to adore this book, so even though it was okay, I feel really disappointed about it. If I hadn't been looking forward to it so much, I would have quit halfway through, because I honestly wasn't even enjoying it all that much--I don't feel like the writing was as good as her past books, and I didn't like the main character, and even though there was much of the same intensity that always characterizes books about Chinese women, I just didn't feel connected to the story. I feel like I need to go read one of her older books now to make up for it.