"Offspring of a Deathless Soul" tells the compelling story of the author as she unexpectedly adopts a Chinese girl. While the story is certainly an interesting one, it is told in such a fatastical voice with all manner of flowery language, hyperbole and mixed metaphors, that this reader is hard pressed to know whether the author has ever encountered a good editor. Neither a novel nor a memoir, the book reads like a cross between an article for a women's magazine and a standard issue pot-boiler historical romance.Strong editing and better self-control over her writing would surely have made this a far better book.