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The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo [Kindle Edition]

Zen Cho (Author)
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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For writer Jade Yeo, the Roaring Twenties are coming in with more of a purr. She's perfectly happy making a living by churning out articles on what the well-dressed woman is wearing. But when she pillories one of London's leading literary luminaries in a scathing review, she may have made the mistake of her career.

Sebastian Hardie is tall, dark and handsome--and more intrigued than annoyed. Jade is irresistibly drawn to the prospect of adventure he offers. But if she succumbs to temptation, she risks losing her hard-won freedom--and her best chance for love.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 181 KB
  • Print Length: 81 pages
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Publisher: Zen Cho; 1 edition (30 May 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0087NQRM2
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #219,622 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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4.0 out of 5 stars tea and biscuits in the twenties 28 Sep 2012
By Miss Kl Parkinson
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I did enjoy the book, despite the twenties not being my favourite period. Jade is an enjoyably independent heroine, although it took me a while to realise the book was set in the twenties and not just terrifically old-fashioned. Tea and biscuits tropes in English fiction are a pet peeve of mine, but that's what comes from being a Brit, I guess.
Anyway, a very well written book with a beautiful cover which reminded me a bit of 'The L shaped Room'. Also worth checking out the author's website for links to more genre fiction.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, unusual romance 19 Jun 2012
By Aliette De Bodard - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
I'll freely admit that romance isn't my stuff, but this is so sweet and so sharp at the same time that it's well worth a read. In the London of the Roaring Twenties, writer Jade Yeo struggles to make a living--until her path intersects that of noted writer Sebastian Hardie, to unexpected circumstances. I loved seeing a well worn historical period from a non-English point of view (and having the subtle indictment of colonialism as well). Zen has a very sharp eye for detail, which makes the pages of this just fly by (loved that Jade snarkily comments on the quality of Chinese vases in London townhouses, and just loved her relationship with Ravi)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A+ 22 Dec 2012
By ryfkah - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
For anyone who likes romance, or the 1920s, or fearless and witty Malaysian lady writer protagonists who write scathing literary criticism, or in fact all of these things should read this novella immediately.

This is a novella written in diary entries about books and feelings. In more detail, it's also about London's fashionable avant-garde literary set of the 1920s, and brilliant and sexy Indian journal editors, and intolerable aunts -- all right, just the one editor and just the one aunt, but they have more than enough personality to make up for it. But mostly it is just adorable. (I'm a hard sell on romance; when I say something is adorable I mean it.)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Sweet, fun, so well done 5 July 2012
By Shannon Phillips - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
"The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo" is enormously fun and deftly written. It's a sweet, engaging romance with a very likable heroine -- smart but naive, practical but inexperienced, independent but not *quite* prepared for the consequences of her indiscretions. A very sweet, entertaining read.

And I want to make it clear that the only reason I'm docking this a star is because I'm judging it by the standard of Jane Austen and Dorothy Sayers. By THAT standard, okay? Zen Cho is absolutely at that level: she deserves the comparison. This story is very smart and completely charming. But ultimately it's a fun, quick read rather than an enduring classic for the ages, because things are a little *easy* for Jade -- she just does whatever she wants, and then the happy ending kind of falls into her lap. She isn't forced to wrestle with the flaws of her own character the way that, say, Elizabeth Bennet or Harriet Vane do before they get their happy-ever-afters.

Instead, this is a cotton-candy story. It dissolves on your mind and leaves a sweet taste behind.
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