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just could not get into the book, The setting Beijing is one I don't often see in romance and I thought it could be promising, However, this book is painfully overwritten and I just could not get into it, I barely made it past chapter two, Olivia Daley's travel itinerary might be unusual, but she believes the best cure for a broken heart is a radical change of scenery.
Exotic, vibrant China is far enough from rainy gray England to be just that!

In the hustle and bustle of Beijing, Olivia is starting a whole new adventure.
She's mesmerized by the ancient legends of love, and soon finds herself wishing she could be the bride who wore red.
The last few chapters changed my mind about this book, I was almost going to give it one star, It's probably the longest I've taken to read a Mills and Boon as it really wasn't a page turner,

The only reason I finished this book, is because I'm trying to readbooks in a year, otherwise I would have probably ditched it half way through.


The author kept telling me how much these two characters were attracted to each other, But she never showed it, So I didn't feel it, I wasn't seeing it at all, I just had to believe the author,

I only started to feel some emotion in the last couple of chapters,

To be honest, I wonder if it's down to word count that can limit a Mills and Boon novel.
This book/story could have been expanded, it even felt a bit rushed at the end, and maybe the middle dragged out.


Too much telling, not enough showing, This book really wasn't that interesting to me, I wasn't swept away with these characters, I didn't much care for them, Sehän tuli luettua nopeasti, Ja sijoittui osittain Kiinaankin eli mikäpäs siinä, Hyvä kirja oli : this book is really good, i liked the sentiments and emotion in this book, i also really liked learning about the chinese beliefs and culture, the ending was great and touching, Christine Sparks was born in England, UK, She wanted to be a writer all her life, and began by working on a British womens magazine, As a features writer, she gained a wide variety of experience, She interviewed some of the worlds most attractive and interesting men, including Warren Beatty, Richard Chamberlain, Charlton Heston, Sir Roger Moore, Sir Alec Guiness.
Single life was so enjoyable that she put marriage, and even romance, on the back burner, while she went about the world having a great time.
Then, while on vacation in Venice, she met a tall, dark handsome Venetian artist, who changed all her ideas in a moment, and proposed on the second day.
Three months later they were married, Her friends said a whirlwind romance would never l Christine Sparks was born in England, UK, She wanted to be a writer all her life, and began by working on a British women's magazine, As a features writer, she gained a wide variety of experience, She interviewed some of the world's most attractive and interesting men, including Warren Beatty, Richard Chamberlain, Charlton Heston, Sir Roger Moore, Sir Alec Guiness.
Single life was so enjoyable that she put marriage, and even romance, on the back burner, while she went about the world having a great time.
Then, while on vacation in Venice, she met a tall, dark handsome Venetian artist, who changed all her ideas in a moment, and proposed on the second day.
Three months later they were married, Her friends said a whirlwind romance would never last, but they celebrated theiranniversary, they are still married, still happy and in love.
Afteryears on the magazine Christine decided that it was now or never if she was ever going to write that novel.
So she wrote Legacy of Fire which became a Silhouette Special Edition, followed by another, Enchantment in Venice, Then she did something crazy gave up her job, Since then she has concentrated entirely on writing romances for Mills Boon, Harlequin and Silhouette and has written overbooks.
Her settings have been European and her heroes mainly English or Italian, Christine now claims to be an expert on one particular subject, Italian men are the most romantic in the world, They are also the best cooks, A few years ago she and her husband returned to Venice and lived there for a couple of years, This proved the perfect base for exploring the rest of Italy, and she has given many of her books Italian settings: Venice of course, Rome, Florence, Milan, Sicily, Tuscany.
She has also used the Rhine in Germany for Song of the Lorelei, for which she won her first RITA Award, in.
Her second RITA came in, with His Brother's Child, set in Rome, Eventually Christine Fiorotto and her husband returned to England, where they now live, She write and he paints, they have no children, but have a cat and a dog, sitelink.