Bamboo Wedding

by Roumelia Lane

Carey listened in anguish to Pearl's words. Brad's secretary had obviously been nursing a smoldering hate ever since she'd heard of their marriage. But these were not just the poisonous ramblings of a jealous woman. — No. So much of what Pearl said added up. Everything slotted into place now. — Carey had believed a deep love was growing between herself and Brad. Now she knew she was just a pawn in a struggle for power!

Genres: Harlequin Romance

188 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Kay Green
aka Roumelia Lane, Florissa May, Guy Granger, Katie Kent, Harley Davis

Kay Green was born on 31 December 1927 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK. On 1 October 1949, she married Gavin Frederick Green, they had a son and a daughter.

Reviews

[Naksed]

I can only think that the author wrote this while in the grip of a debilitating, disorienting, feverish flu. The alternative would be that she is a raging racist who, to add insult to injury, does not know how to write.

h is a mature, savvy, world-traveled businesswoman...who finds herself stuck in Taiwan penniless.

Instead of contacting the English consulate or calling her corporation to advance her the traveling fees, she marries a guy she has met for five minutes, because he tells her it's the only way he can help her.

His secretary OF COURSE throws a wrench into her budding with love heart by telling her he only married her to get her to vote favorably on the board of his company.

She decides to let the Great, Big, Terrible Misunderstanding compound by letting her husband believe she is in love with another man.

HE A when she realizes the profits from the big business deal she thought he was using her for are to be donated to a local charity. Which means he didn't care to enrich himself, so he must love her.

There are absolutely vile and disgusting references to Taiwanese people liberally sprinkled throughout. It was gross even by vintage HPlandia standards. There is no naivety, no romanticization or mere stereotyping, it is straight up racial hatred. Aside from the two Taiwanese villains, the locals are one great, menacing, sullen, slit-eyed mob who twice erupt into a violent riot, almost trampling the heroine to death.

Quite disappointed and disgusted by this offering from the same author who brought me the delightfully escapist, romantic jaunt of Nurse at Noongwalla.

[Margo]

R eally
A wfully
C ompletely
I ncredibly
S taggeringly
T errible

[Frances Engle]

i read a lot of vintage harlequins. each requires suspension of disbelief. some more so, some less but never ever have i encountered this level of nonsense. even if i could get past the immediate marriage of strangers, the inexplicable desirability of an insipid main character and the ridiculously drawn out misunderstandings, i fall at having to digest the staggering quantity of asian stereotyping in this book.

it really is, in a perverse way, an accomplishment. Bamboo Wedding bamboozled me in the end as I'm the sucker that actually finished it.

[Last Chance Saloon]

Dull heroine (26) meets dull hero (30s) in Taiwan and they get married. She lets the lies of the OW (his secretary) almost ruin their marriage and he thinks she loves another. It has a 'mystery', but it feels seedy.
1 1/2 stars

[ANGELIA]

I couldn't agree more with all the other reviewers, and will add this: are we really supposed to believe that this cold fish of a h could get so many guys hot for her? I DON'T THINK SO!

[Andrea .... e suas cafonices.]

Uma estrelas pela loucura, pra escrever isso tem que ter talento!!!