The Moonlight Palace
by:
Liz Rosenberg (author)
Agnes Hussein, descendant of the last sultan of Singapore and the last surviving member of her immediate family, has grown up among her eccentric relatives in the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent relic given to her family in exchange for handing over Singapore to the British.Now...
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Agnes Hussein, descendant of the last sultan of Singapore and the last surviving member of her immediate family, has grown up among her eccentric relatives in the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent relic given to her family in exchange for handing over Singapore to the British.Now Agnes is seventeen and her family has fallen into genteel poverty, surviving on he
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781477824429 (1477824421)
ASIN: 1477824421
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Pages no: 174
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Drama,
Family,
Contemporary,
Asia,
Fiction,
Historical
It wasn't bad. It was just totally unmemorable. The characters lacked depth and the narrative was not particularly compelling. I wonder if perhaps this book has been marketed incorrectly. It might work better as a YA novel than a straight up historical novel. There was a lot of potential, but t...
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