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Capturing the Silken Thief
Capturing the Silken Thief
Capturing the Silken Thief
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Capturing the Silken Thief

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Tang Dynasty China, 823 A.D.

Musician Jia needs a valuable book of poems by a famous courtesan to buy her freedom...and she believes Luo Cheng has taken it. Her attempt to steal the book from him fails, but the tall and powerful scholar unexpectedly offers to help her quest! But when they finally find the bookand the arousing poems and artwork insideJia's longing for freedom is replaced with a new kind of desire for Cheng....
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 1, 2012
ISBN9781459224056
Capturing the Silken Thief
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Jeannie Lin

Jeannie Lin grew up fascinated with stories of Western epic fantasy and Eastern martial arts adventures. When her best friend introduced her to romance novels in middle school, the stage was set. Jeannie started writing her first romance while working as a high school science teacher in South Central Los Angeles. Her first two books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Library Journal and The Dragon and the Pearl was listed among Library Journal's Best Romances of 2011.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5

    This review is from: Capturing the Silken Thief (Kindle Edition)
    Capturing a Silken Thief by Jeannie Lin was a quick, fun read. Set in Changan during the Tang Dynasty in China 823 A.D, we follow the heroine, Yang Jia-jing, and the hero, Luo Cheng through about 56 pages of a richly detailed novella.

    Jia is a young song girl who plays the Pipa while Luo Cheng is a farmer boy who has studied for the Imperial Exams, which he has already failed once. If he fails again, he will be forced to return home in shame.

    Jia mistakes Cheng for a scholar in possession of a rare treasured book. Eventually, the end up searching for the book together. It's a brief romp through Changan, but full of fun and adventure.

    More happens, but you'll have to read Capturing the Silken Thief for yourself to find out what, and how the story ends.

    I enjoyed reading this short novella immensely, and it was my first time reading Jeannie Lin. I'll be reading more of her books for sure. (Come back next week to find out what I thought of Jeannie Lin's book, "butterfly Swords".

    On a Star rating, this is a **** for sure. Leaning toward 4.25 stars. I do suggest this if you want a quick read and haven't read Ms. Lin before.

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Finally! A non-virgin heroine. I was starting to think that the heroine in historical romances had to be a virgin. I'm glad to see this is not the case. So, overall I rather enjoyed this one. The heroine is a take-no-shit kind of girl, and I liked how she was morally ambiguous. She's no starry-eyed innocent and has no compunction about going after what she wants, so I found her to be one of the strongest characters I've read in a romance thus far. The story doesn't seem related to any of the other novels or novellas that Lin has written thus far, and it was quite well self-contained.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I haven't experienced much luck with the Undone line, not because bad writing, but an inability to infuse emotion and passion in such a short word count. When Jeannie Lin offered her new novella to the first 25 responders I did so out of curiosity for the setting than any other expectation. I was more than pleasantly surprised to become utterly engrossed in this novella from page one. Lin managed to world build, create compelling characters, and a believable romance in under 100 pages, and she managed to make this short book super compelling. Not once did I wish this was longer, and I am eager to read her actual full length books.

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