MaidMerry reviewed Disappearing Moon Cafe by Sky Lee
Review of 'Disappearing Moon Cafe' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I do like books that follow multiple-generations of an immigrant family, and this novel fit the bill.
Also, this book had more of a plot than most I've read recently, but it was too much plot. I got lost in the convoluted story lines. I also had difficulty distinguishing among the characters. I often had to look back at the chapter heading to see which character was narrating and would sometimes have to look back further to remember who that character was.
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I also don't like when a story has too many coincidences, which I felt this one did. For the successive daughters in this family to become romantically attached to men who may or may not have been close relatives due to the machinations of the old matriarch and to secret infidelities was a bit too much to swallow. One such twist …
I do like books that follow multiple-generations of an immigrant family, and this novel fit the bill.
Also, this book had more of a plot than most I've read recently, but it was too much plot. I got lost in the convoluted story lines. I also had difficulty distinguishing among the characters. I often had to look back at the chapter heading to see which character was narrating and would sometimes have to look back further to remember who that character was.
** Spoiler ****
I also don't like when a story has too many coincidences, which I felt this one did. For the successive daughters in this family to become romantically attached to men who may or may not have been close relatives due to the machinations of the old matriarch and to secret infidelities was a bit too much to swallow. One such twist would have been plenty.
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That said, there was enough in the story and the writing to keep me reading, and that hasn't always been the case lately.