Book: The Lotus Shoes
Author: Jane
Yang
Pages: 400
Date(s)
Read: March 1st, 2025 to March 12th, 2025
Date
Published: January 7th, 2025
Rating: 5/5
Genre: Historical
Fiction
Characters: 5/5
Writing style: 5/5
Story: 5/5
Ending: 5/5
Cover: 5/5
Format: Hard Cover
Date Bought: January 7th, 2025
Book Cost: 22.99
Review:
The Lotus
Shoes is a tale of perseverance in the face of China's misogynist class system
that makes upward mobility a near impossibility. It's a fast paced historical
fiction that is both heart rending and hopeful at once.
In the
Lotus Shoes Little Flower is sold into slavery to Linjings family as the young
girls muizai. Throughout the years the girls must weather growing up,
tremendous upheaval, and scandal.
I found
Little Flower to be a sympathetic main character that is full of heart,
determination, grit, and compassion. Linjing is her foil and hinders Little
Flower at every turn making her a character that is hard to like. Despite
Linjings odious personality her character growth is satisfying and I found the
end rewarding.
It's not
the most stand out or notable historical fiction but The Lotus Shoes is good.
It's a competent tale of the ties that bind women, of how women can help and
hinder one another in a society where women have little agency.
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