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The Examination (Sunburst Book)
by Malcolm Bosse
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• A comprehensive review of this book
  The Examination, written by Malcolm Bosse, is a gripping adventure novel with two main characters, brothers, with two different ambitions. The story is set in the Ming Dynasty, sometime after the rule of the great emperor of Yangle, but "his successors had grown weak, until now the whole country was again facing disaster"(Bosse 89). Lao Hong, 15, the younger brother, is "born under the sign of the Tiger...People declared that in every respect young Hong was true to his birth sign"(1). Hong is reckless,... more info

• Lots of interesting detail. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
  I love reading well researched historical fiction which gives a lot of detail and flavor of daily life. I am impressed by the author's ability to get us inside the minds of characters from another century and another culture (I am not Chinese). I found it fascinating, and have read it twice. It inspired me to read more fiction set in this same time period.

• BAD, BAD, BAD!
  I had to read this book for school and it was so bad that I didn't read the whole thing. The day before the test I had to force myself to TRY to read the book. Luckily, I was spared and did not have to read thanks to my motion sickness on the bus.
  And anyways, even though our teacher said that he was a good rescearcher, he got some facts wrong. As said in another review, the Ox and Tiger come after one another. It's impossible that Chen was four years older. Also, it's kind of overrated how Hong has... more info

• i hate this book
  It totally sucked to me compared to 7 Daughters 7 Sons. Both of which my teacher made me read at school.
  One of the reasons was becuase this auther had absolutely NO idea about Chinese history, tradions and blah blah blah. One of the mistakes is that the Year of the Tiger and Ox are only One year apart so there was no way that they would be four years apart unless Malcolm Bosse has some dumb*ss to help him write this book.
  Another thing is how dumb this book is. Chen tries to seduce a... more info

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