Title: Uncomfortable for the wrong reasons
Product review: I enjoyed the Power of One and went to the trouble of getting Tandia shipped across the Atlantic to check out Courtenay's sequel -- a mistake both in terms of time and money spent. The beatification of Peekay in this second book renders him wholly un-appealing and in-human. The need of the author to stuff the book with historical context may be valued by high-school history classes but served in my eyes to completely obscure whatever flow the story might otherwise have managed. Tandia herself is poorly served not only by her fictional circumstances but also by the neglect of Courtenay who leaves her vastly under-developed. In sum - I did not enjoy my reading of the book and, even worse, was so distracted by the discomfort that the lessons to be learned from the South African situation were lost to me during the read.
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