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The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo
by
Zen Cho (Goodreads Author)
For writer Jade Yeo, the Roaring Twenties are coming in with more of a purr — until she pillories London's best-known author in a scathing review. Sebastian Hardie is tall, dark and handsome, and more intrigued than annoyed. But if Jade succumbs to temptation, she risks losing her hard-won freedom — and her best chance for love.
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Published
May 30th 2012
by Smashwords
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Late C19th/early C20th interactions between Asia and Western Europe is a special area of interest for me, as is woman (or at least non-dude!)-centred literature, so I was looking forward to reading this.
It's largely fun, light reading - and a fairly short read at that - but that doesn't mean it is superficial. It's sort of like Georgette Heyer with more wanton face-sucking, non-Western people of colour, and critical consideration of colonialism.
Things which I liked included the fact that it is...more
It's largely fun, light reading - and a fairly short read at that - but that doesn't mean it is superficial. It's sort of like Georgette Heyer with more wanton face-sucking, non-Western people of colour, and critical consideration of colonialism.
Things which I liked included the fact that it is...more
This is the novella that made me smile and laugh out loud in the waiting room of the car repair place today, even though I knew that I was about to spend a very unpleasant amount of money on my wheel alignment. If you have an e-reader of some sort, I highly recommend getting The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo for the next time you're in a similar situation. It is short and fluffy enough to be appreciated in a public waiting room with the TV on, containing plot twists more unexpected than the average...more
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“Do you not have tea in China?” said Diana.
The British are a peculiar race. My grandfather was transported to Malaya because they needed tin, and yet I’ve never once met a Briton to whom the thought had occurred that perhaps I spoke English because I am from one of their colonies. It is as if I were a piece of chess in a game played by people who never looked down at their fingers.
“We have the beverage, but not the buns,” I said, to avoid tiresome explanation.
light and charming and funny. could...more
As silly as this sounds, the four stars rather than five are because it was, truly, too short! I mean that in both a cutesy, "I didn't want it to end" way -- it was truly delightful, and I really didn't want it to end -- but also as a legit criticism. I felt like there could've been a lot more in the way of character development...although, admittedly, that might just be me not wanting it to end, because see above re: delightful! I was grinning like a fool on my commute, and the sly little Wodeh...more
his is a sweet and fun little novella available for free via the Kindle Lending Library for those who have Amazon Prime. Jade Yeo is trying to make it as a writer in Roaring Twenties London, and she wants a little adventure before she settles down. Jade (or Geok Huay if only any Londoners could pronounce it) is charming and delightful as a narrator, and it's fun to read about her essentially cheerfully subverting romance tropes along with the occasionally sharp and wry critique of colonialism an...more
I flat out loved this novella!
There is nothing I would change about it -- it is by turns laugh-out-loud funny, sweetly romantic, and trenchantly observant.
Jade was utterly convincing as a writer, because what she writes in her diary made me want to read more.
On fluffy romance novels:
"The Duke is searching for the naive yet spirited young governess who has helped him throw off his malaise (dukes are always in terrible danger of lapsing into a malaise; it must be all that fox-hunting and quail)."
O...more
There is nothing I would change about it -- it is by turns laugh-out-loud funny, sweetly romantic, and trenchantly observant.
Jade was utterly convincing as a writer, because what she writes in her diary made me want to read more.
On fluffy romance novels:
"The Duke is searching for the naive yet spirited young governess who has helped him throw off his malaise (dukes are always in terrible danger of lapsing into a malaise; it must be all that fox-hunting and quail)."
O...more
I tried to write a sensible review and what came out was "Geok Huay/Ravi 4 lyfe."
If you like historical romances, this is right up your alley! If you don't, then we have something in common, and I adore the central romance in this book, so that's really no excuse.
If you like historical romances, this is right up your alley! If you don't, then we have something in common, and I adore the central romance in this book, so that's really no excuse.
Very charming romance. I especially liked the playfulness of the language and voice, but I also didn't miss the ways it subverted a lot of genre romance and Orientalist tropes.
Charming but I wanted more adventures first before that ending!
Fun, fluffy, charming protagonist.
Funny and fluffy, but I think I wanted to like this more than I actually did?
May 17, 2013
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I'm a Malaysian writer living in London. My stories have been published in a handful of magazines and anthologies -- you can check most of them out via my website.
My historical romance "The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo" is available as an ebook on Amazon.
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My historical romance "The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo" is available as an ebook on Amazon.
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