Thorndike Core: All Woman and Springtime (Hardcover)

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This is one those books you finish and for days afterward you are left with a sense of loss because you miss the characters. As with many good stories, the beginning is a bit slow but it was necessary in order to lay the foundation for the characters' psyche. The descriptions of the astonishing a...

from Beamis12

Many aspects of this novel were of interest to me, the setting in North and South Korea, the conditions and treatments in the prisoner's camps, the lack of food and freedom, and the story of the two girls in the orphanage. Il-Sun and Gi, meet in an orphanage, having traveled very different paths ...

from gayla.bassham

Really 3.5 stars, but I felt like rounding up. This book caught my eye because of my obsession with North Korea. And I think the author does a great job with the setting, and with its effect on Gyong-Ho in particular. (One sometimes gets the feeling that Jones was so interested in Gyong-Ho he for...

from pdebolt

This is an amazing debut novel from my favorite publisher. Algonquin rarely disappoints readers of serious fiction, and this book is noteworthy for its prose and its subject matter. The insights into life in North Korea were obviously well researched and provide a chilling look at what is normal ...

from corglacier7

A haunting and hard-hitting book: first exploring life in North Korea for young women, but then also delving into the brutality of human trafficking and sex slavery. Not an easy read emotionally, but a powerful, well-done story that lingers with you.