A review by reading_giraffe
The Moonlight Palace by Liz Rosenberg

2.0

This book was in many ways just ok. The plot was fairly interesting and kept me reading further but but was not remarkable in any way. My biggest problem with this book was that it constantly felt like it was written from the perspective of a culture tourist. There were numerous instance of information dumps where the author used phrases like: this is how things were done here or this is how it was in Singaporean culture. These made the book feel forced as though some who had just returned from sightseeing in Singapore was trying to show me what they had learned. This subtracted from the believability of the narrator and made the story much less enjoyable.