This sequel to Shanghai Girls starts in 1950s Los Angeles. University student Joy (Pearl's adopted daughter) has become enamored with Communism. In the wake of her adopted father's suicide, she decides to go to China and find her real father, artist Z.G. Li, and join in the cultural revolution herse...
I wavered in my rating. I originally gave it four stars because I felt it was a high 3.5 half stars but after digesting the book, I feel it's really more a three star read. I found [b:Shanghai Girls|5960325|Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls #1)|Lisa See|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327968416s/5960325...
Written in the first person by a mother and daughter, this tells of family strife and what you would do for those you love.Joy is the daughter of Chinese immigrants to the US, although at the opening of the book she's discovered that she is, in fact, the biological daughter of her aunt. She's also 1...
I know I am bucking the trend here, but while I enjoyed "Shanghai Girls" enormously and hoped for a sequel, this book truly disappointed me. I gave it three stars because the author does put pen to paper very well, and the book moves along, however slowly, to a conclusion the reader eagerly looks fo...
This is the sequel to Shanghai Girls. I need to find this one so I can see how it all ends, since the first one's ending left me wondering.I liked this one even more than Shanghai Girls. This one picks up where the last one left off, with Joy learning her family truths by overhearing an argument bet...
I was very disappointed with this book. I had high hopes because I really did enjoy Shanghai Girls. The beginning of the book wasn’t so bad actually. It was pretty interesting. I liked the way you follow Joy through her journey to China - it was an eye opener, but her naivete also gets the best out ...
I read Shanghai Girls and enjoyed that immensely. I don't think Dreams of Joy lived up to its predecessor. I liked the content and background of the story, communist China in the late 1950s, but I think I would have preferred a whole new set of characters. It would have been a longer book though.I t...
Dreams of Joy is the sequel to Shanghai Girls, which I read and loved back in August. Those of you who have read Shanghai Girls will remember that Joy had just found out that her mother Pearl isn't really her mother at all but her aunt, and that her biological father is an artist still living in Ch...
Three stars for being perfectly acceptable chick lit, two stars for disappointing me. So 2.5 total.I'd been hearing a lot of hype about Lisa See, so I was looking forward to reading this. I don't get what the fuss is about. The story and characters were slightly engaging, but not enough for me to...
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