Fortune is a Woman, Elizabeth Adler, 1992, Delacorte Press. Genre: Women’s Pop Fiction. 433 pages. Finished 2/27/10.
LesOpinion: I’m not really sure what genre this book falls into. It’s not a classic bodice-ripping romance, and it isn’t suspenseful in the classic whodunit sense. So I called it Women’s Pop Fiction, because reading it was like watching a made-for-TV mini-series on the Lifetime Network (the men are idiots, scoundrels, or deeply flawed while the women are noble, hot, and long-suffering). It tells a fantastic tale that I suppose aspires to being referred to as “epic” since it covers continents, spans decades, and involves Chinese people. (And while the author makes sure we know Chinese immigrants were treated brutally in the U.S. at the turn of the century, she’s not above referring on more than one occasion to her Chinese characters’ faces as “enigmatic”). It was an easy read, an involving (if implausible) tale, and has a terrific twist at the end you won’t see coming.
Dumbest quote: “He was a man heading for the top and a scandalous divorce would wreck his career. And she was a scandalous woman.”
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I wrote something witty and thoughtful but the computer ate it while I was trying to sign in. I can't be witty twice in the same day.
Maybe tomorrow will be a better day.
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