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Oct 16, 2016cknightkc rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
With the provocative title, I should’ve known what to expect when I began THE JAPANESE LOVER. While it's an easy read, the characters were never fully developed for my satisfaction and much of the narrative seems straight out of a Harlequin Romance novel. This overly ambitious book attempts to juggle way too many themes, including aging, dying, assisted suicide, racism, war crimes, human sex trafficking, child pornography, abortion, and homosexuality. In all fairness, this was my first Isabel Allende novel, and I've noted others comment that THE JAPANESE LOVER doesn’t even approach the standards of her other works, so I’ll give her a pass on this one and read another of her books, just not immediately.