Reviews for The Blonde Geisha

The average rating for The Blonde Geisha based on 2 reviews is 1 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-11-27 00:00:00 Wouter Cortebeeck I don't know how the author can be a "sexspert" and live in Japan and yet somehow know nothing about geisha. Geisha were not high class prostitutes, or courtesans, and were not obsessed with sex - that's an age-old Western misconception that she does nothing to dispel and everything to reinforce. She doesn't even bother to deal with the training period geisha go through, just skips to the (quote unquote) good part about selling virginity - and a sex-obsessed western 18-yr-old girl hiding in a teahouse. And the idea that geisha run around with expensive kimono with nothing underneath- and *oops* their obis just always come undone... good grief. And even that... she doesn't get it on but one time at the end of the book, so it's not even a proper erotic novel. If you want a one-night read and don't care about reinforcing stereotypes of Asian women (and no, I'm a white girl writing this) and mockeries of other cultures histories and traditions - be my guest. But this is pulpy trash, I was severely disappointed. (copied from my paperbackswap review)

Review # 2 was written on 2014-02-13 00:00:00 Cory Heesch Awful. Just...AWFUL. Stilted, cheesy, poorly-written dreck that makes VC Andrews look like William Shakespeare. I can't even summon the will for a proper snarky review. (Yeah, one of those books. Bleh.) Thank you & goodnight.