7. Inheritance - Lan Samantha Chang

I quite enjoyed this story, although am a little embarrassed to admit it. It is fairly generic love story set in China, involving several generations of families, as well as a war. I found it to be similar to the story of ‘Falling Leaves’ by Adeline Yen Mah, about a neglected and unloved daughter, as it involved many aspects of cruelty toward daughters, and it followed through generations. The love stories involved were passionate and untouchable, but I felt the author left out many aspects of characters, and I found it hard to understand how certain couples came to love each other at all due to this!

On the other hand, covering many generations meant that you could see where certain influences came from and what had caused people to act in different ways. This part I liked. Although it covered close to 100 years, it seemed short and focused on the main parts of the story that the reader needed to know. It was a relatively easy read, no challenging style or language was used.