![]() ![]() ![]() I can’t help feeling though that Ai Li displays some principles and beliefs that would be more at home today than in the eighth century. Ai Li, for example, is addressed as Ailey in this story. But there is enough historical flavor to make this story uniquely Chinese, although there are also concessions to accessibility for folks unfamiliar with Chinese culture. This is a road trip story, and a rather familiar one at that, as I’ve read variations of this theme in Scotland and the Wild West frontiers of America. She decides to have him accompany her back to Changan, the capital city, and he does so despite his misgivings. Things get… complicated, let’s just say, and it just happens that the foreign devil Ryam is at the right time and the right place to come to her rescue. ![]() However, she discovers that Li Tao is planning some mischief, and organizes a disruption to her upcoming nuptial. ![]() Princess Ai Li, the wielder of the swords in the title, is supposed to marry Li Tao, the second most powerful man in China after her father the Emperor. Don’t worry too much about getting culture shock, though, Jeannie Lin writes with an accessible sensibility more typical of that of a romance author rather than, say, James Clavell or Eric V Lustbader. Harlequin Historical, $5.99, ISBN 978-4-9īutterfly Swords is an interesting historical romance because it is set in China during the Tang Dynasty. ![]()
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