Title: The American Sarah?
Product review: I have to agree with the previous reviewer who found this novel lacking in cultural depth. The story was okay--if you like OSC's other stuff, you'll probably like the storytelling well enough--but I found myself annoyed throughout the book by the fact that the characters were not Middle Eastern, but American. Card, while ostensibly setting his tale in the Middle East of several thousand years ago, made no attempt to craft characters whose motivations and personalities might have been shaped by that place and time and culture. They all acted, to my mind, like 20th Century Americans, thus rendering the whole story unbelievable and silly to me. While I'm not a huge OSC fan in general, I prefer his sci-fi stuff, where he makes up the place and time and culture and then crafts characters to fit those circumstances. It's more believable to me.
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