Negative Positive
Title: Cultural insensitivity
Review: At it's finest. Of course, after reading the author info blurb and discovering that she is part of a "church-planting" group working in Kerala, I should have realised that the author would have a skewed view of any non-evangelical Christian religion.As an earlier reviewer noted, the author mis-uses Hindi honorifics, and none of the Hindu/Indian characters are particularly admirable in their behavior. The only "good" Indians in the series seemed to be "Gem" the adopted child of Coral and "Jemani", Gem's mother, who had converted too Christianity.Historical inaccuracies abound as well...the metric system wasn't adopted in France until 1795, and wasn't made compulsory in France until the 1840s. So the use of the metric units of measure by the male lead was incorrect, as the British used the Imperial standard of measure until well into the 19th and 20th century.I had a hard time reading this book, as the opinions and the inaccuracies of the author kept pulling me out of the story.
Is the review positive or negative? 