This was a great historical novel about the horrors comfort women went through as a historical event, but also on an individual scale, about how rape follows a woman her entire life and how she pays the price and essentially 'does the time' for her rapist. While the comfort women's story is very historically particular, the individual one seemed very universal as to the experience of rape victims and how it affects a person's whole life, moving on.

I can't attest to how accurate this book is historically or culturally, but it was plainly visible that the author, although American himself, is deeply in love with the culture and history of Korea, and how much he cares about the fate of the country, as a unified nation, which may not be possible from where things are right now between the North and South. I have read his other book, The Dragon Queen, and it was also overflowing with the way the author feels about the fate of these countries. Both books were great, and also very interesting to read. He is a talented author for sure. Considering the intention and feeling of the author, even if there are cultural discrepancies, it should be held in mind how much the author feels for the culture of Korea and how he wants to spread awareness of the painful history in its past - especially because some of this history is attempted to be covered up by parties involved (such as the comfort women's story or other horrors of Japanese occupation.)

The reader should keep in mind, though, that this book may be very triggering. It's about comfort women, so there is a lot of rape, although the author writes with respect to the women, rape is still rape and the book is very sad at times. There is also a lot of death and loss, because it's a story of war, occupation and struggle. Keep this in mind, if you may be triggered by these topics.

I thank the publisher for giving me a free copy of the ebook in exchange to my honest review. This has not affected my opinion.

In simple writing, Andrews tells a devastating story that more people need to know about: Japan's unacknowledged shame of the hundreds of thousands of comfort women.

This is a great book for a teacher's reading list. Multicultural with a history lesson on Korea.

I don't read a lot of historical fiction but I decided to request this book on netgalley based on the rave review on Goodreads. I am so glad I found this book. This is a well written piece of fictional history, based on documented true events, describing the thousands of young Asian women who were forced to become comfort women. Women and girls were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army in occupied territories before and during World War II. This book describes Jae-hee's journey.

This was an incredible read and I definitely recommend this book. I would like to thank NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for supplying a copy of William Andrews's "Daughters of the Dragon" in exchange for a honest review.