Abandoned China Dolls eBook Maria Miller
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When Brent and Ashley move to China for Brent's job transfer, Ashley feels lost in her new home. With the help of an ayi, a maid, Ashley learns to enjoy her new home. Then she discovers a terrible secret at the market young girls are sold in cages. Ashley buys some girls to raise as children, only to find that she has jeopardized their stay in China.
Abandoned China Dolls eBook Maria Miller
Maria Miller has managed to create a poignant story about a truly tragic situation.....children being sold and thrown away simply because of their gender. This topic alone ripped my heart out and I needed to read this story twice before I was comfortable writing this review.Ok...even reading it twice I have a hard time putting this into words. A young American couple, Brent and Ashley, relocate to China because of Brent's job. Ashley, a school teacher, is unhappy about the move. Trying to fit into a culture is hard enough, but fitting into one you don't want to be in, is much more insufferable. When Brent hires a maid to help his wife become comfortable with the local customs.
Ashley goes to a market and sees young girls in cages being sold. She buys them and brings them home. She continues to buy these beautiful children.
What I loved about this book was the author dealt with reality on what and how they would deal with the specifications of getting these children home. I was slightly disappointed in the lack of connection I felt between the main characters. I do realize the premise of this story was to bring exposure to this atrocity and that is why I would definitely recommend this book!
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Abandoned China Dolls eBook Maria Miller Reviews
Maria Miller has captured the essence of a world wide phenomenon, the casting away of children just because they are little girls. It is a crime against humanity. If it were occurring in an open society like Europe or America there would be a huge outcry, but because it is a country closed to the outside world, no one does anything. Her story has all the delicacy of a lotus flower but deals with the brutality of a culture that values life differently. She has expressed horror in the deliverance of six beautiful little girls from a barbaric existence. It should receive worldwide attention, at least from mother and fathers that love their daughters. Read it, but be warned, behind the rich and compelling plot lies a monster, it is the monster of human indifference. Well written, heartbreaking. By Author of the Suspense Thriller, PAPER$, Alan Son
“Abandoned China Dolls” is based on the true story of little girls who are kept in cages and sold. It’s a harrowing story and difficult to believe that such an atrocity is occurring on a daily basis in China. The story was well told; it left me outraged, appalled, and sickened. It is the sign of a gifted author to be able to incite such emotions in a reader. It’s a harrowing but gripping read, and is a story that needed to be told. The plot is unique and I felt that I was right there in the story with Brent and Ashley. I haven’t been so affected by a book in quite a while. Highly recommended.
This is not the typical book I read as I am very much into action/thriller type books. However, I am a father of 7 daughters and 1 son so when I understood the subject matter of this book I was keen to read.
The book tells the story of a young american couple who move to China for the husband's work. The wife is unhappy in her new surroundings. One day at the market she sees two young children in a cage being sold like slaves. She buys the children and takes them home, much to her husband's initial anger.
The story develops as the wife brings home further children and they face the issue that the husband is recalled to the USA to take a big promotion but they wouldn't be able to take the children with them.
I will say no more about the details of the story but this is a great story that deals with a terrible tragedy. It is both emotional and ultimately uplifting.
I strongly recommend reading!
The dark reality of this story was intriguing as we learn of the plight of some female children in China. Moving to China is a sacrifice school teacher Ashley will make for her husband. But once there she finds herself afloat and not able to adjust well to the new environment. But in a market she discovers problems much deeper than her own – female children for sale. She saves them by purchasing a number of them and taking them home. The children provide her direction as she becomes savior to them while wrestling with the logistics of the probability that they will eventually have to return back to the United States. An engaging and dark concept, Abandoned China Dolls is a story that could be enthralling if the author had delved deeper into what motivated the central characters with less exposition and more conversation. Despite that, I enjoyed the story, it was both unique and charming. I look forward to more from this author.
Abandoned China Dolls was a storyline with so much promise, but was sadly not very well executed. After reading the synopsis which revealed way too much of the story, I settled in for an exciting and adventurous read, but I found that most of the characters were lacking in depth.
It was a bitter pill for Ashley to swallow when she found out she couldn’t have children, especially since she loved children and was surrounded by them on a daily basis. When her husband Brent accepts a position in China, Ashley wants none of it, because it would disturb her way of life. Once she arrives in China, she makes no effort to assimilate into the way of life. Her husband’s position is not what he thought it would be, and so he settles into a monotonous way of life.
I wanted to read more about the life around them. I wanted to hear about that neon sign that flashed in the distance and reminded her of home. I wanted a little more interaction between Ashley and the local Chinese, since she went out alone sometimes to do the shopping. I wanted to know more about Yu since she was such an integral part of the story. I wanted to know the truth about Ginny. I liked the quirky gardener, but would I have risked my wife and children to his charge? Maybe a little more about him, would’ve made that part of the story more believable. And the girls, a very touching part of the story, but not enough told about them.
Should’ve been a beautiful story, but I found it too rushed.
Maria Miller has managed to create a poignant story about a truly tragic situation.....children being sold and thrown away simply because of their gender. This topic alone ripped my heart out and I needed to read this story twice before I was comfortable writing this review.
Ok...even reading it twice I have a hard time putting this into words. A young American couple, Brent and Ashley, relocate to China because of Brent's job. Ashley, a school teacher, is unhappy about the move. Trying to fit into a culture is hard enough, but fitting into one you don't want to be in, is much more insufferable. When Brent hires a maid to help his wife become comfortable with the local customs.
Ashley goes to a market and sees young girls in cages being sold. She buys them and brings them home. She continues to buy these beautiful children.
What I loved about this book was the author dealt with reality on what and how they would deal with the specifications of getting these children home. I was slightly disappointed in the lack of connection I felt between the main characters. I do realize the premise of this story was to bring exposure to this atrocity and that is why I would definitely recommend this book!
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