Furthermore, the inclusion of Taiwan is the chef's kiss. What I appreciate the most is that Eppig weaves Chinese mythology and historical elements in the narrative (Mazu, the goddess of the sea and the Empress of Heaven and the Qing dynasty), bringing known characters to life.
When one finally has a voice and turn at dictating the course of things, it's hard to navigate between the tenuous line of "freedom x chasing power". However Yeung is far from a perfect character - Eppig details human experiences such as love and grief while the MC deals with womanhood and motherhood. She does what it takes to survive in a world on a brink and defies women's role in a male-dominated place. After assaulting a Portuguese ship and her partner dies, Yeung allies with Cheung Po (second-in-command) through marriage to secure her position and control over the army.įrom a person of humble origins to a leader who commands the largest pirate fleet in China, there's something about how Yeung grapples with power in a ruthless way that makes her a magnetic character. This is a historical adventurous tale about the legendary Chinese pirate queen Shek Yeung. "All this world is, is people exacting their will on others." (Apr."The world was full of people who'd triumphed because they'd clung to their secrets and people who'd succumbed because they'd loosed their secrets too easily or too early." Heavy-handed foreshadowing (“Had Jack looked at the plane tree where he had been standing moments earlier, he would have seen he was wrong in thinking that no one was watching him”) is a drawback. Jack, who has the annoying habit of reciting childish rhymes, was supervising a novice train engineer on a neighboring track, but didn’t see anything helpful. Her inquiries are aided by the convenient coincidence that Rick’s death was witnessed by her friend and partner in detection, Jack Harmon.
William is convinced someone pushed his brother, and Stella agrees to help find the culprit. Stella, who works for the London-based Clean Slate, is approached by William Frost, who’s heard that “apart from cleaning, solves murders.” William’s brother, Rick, died a month earlier after supposedly jumping in front of an Underground train, a clear case of suicide according to the authorities.
Thomson’s third book featuring professional cleaner and amateur sleuth Stella Darnell (after Ghost Girl) is less successful than its predecessors in making her detecting plausible.
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