A Bitter Feast
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A Bitter Feast
by Authors:
S. J. Rozan
Released: 01 July, 1999
ISBN: 0312970110
Mass Market Paperback
Sales Rank: 89911
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Customer Review #1:
 ehhhhhh
Not an aaaahhhhhhh! Not an uuuuhhhhhhhh! Sort of a ehhhhhhhhh!A complicated plot that barely kept my interest in a story peopled by characters that I barely cared about. Lydia was too terminally perky for me, and Bill too forbearing as he graciously accepted an unending stream of rebuffs from her. I shoulda just passed this one by.
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Customer Review #2:
 Excellent! Rozans best novel to date.
I have read Rozans first five novels and they are all very good but this is clearly her best yet. This book has it all: a complex, realistic plot that keeps you guessing until the end, interesting, well-developed characters, great dialogue and a very exciting conclusion. Bill and Lydia are more interesting and entertaining than ever. The thing that impresses me most about this book, however, is simply how well it is written. Rozans writing is clean and precise and her discriptions of Chinatown are so good I almost felt like I was there. Rozan is now my favorite mystery writer and I hope she writes many, many more.
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Customer Review #3:
 Sumptuously Hard-Boiled
With this sumptuously hard-boiled fifth installment in her acclaimed Lydia Chin-Bill Smith series -- which gracefully alternates between the voice of Lydia, a gutsy PI born and raised in New Yorks Chinatown, and her off-again, on-again partner, Bill -- Shamus-winning Rozan will no doubt regale her fans. Hired to find four waiters whove gone missing from the Dragon Garden, a busy dim sum establishment owned by a local Cantonese power player, Lydia gets herself a job as a waitress and goes to work on the joint, all the while offering insight into how the community power structure has been transformed as Fukienese-speaking immigrants have superseded the older Cantonese. And soon enough Lydia and Bill uncover a mystery -- involving drug-smuggling, alien-smuggling and dissident-smuggling -- that brings that ethnic conflict into sharp focus. All in all, a beautiful and gripping novel, brimming with spice, complexity and suspense. (And food -- enormous, mouth-watering quantities of it.) --APBnews.com
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