Reader's Ink discussion

1. WHAT DO YOU RATE THIS BOOK AND WHY.

These are Cheryl's questions, just helped post them for her,

I FEEL terrible. I gave it a two. The dynamics between mother and daughter is odd and uncomfortable to me. I'm not comfortable with the making of a courtesan--probably from my own background. Shanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn is the privileged daughter of the American madam of the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when the Ching dynasty is overturned, Violet is separated from her mother in a cruel act of chicanery and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Half-Chinese and half-American, Violet grapples with her place in the worlds of East and West—until she is able to merge her two halves, empowering her to become a shrewd courtesan who excels in the business of seduction and illusion, though she still struggles to understand who she is.