Thiago Menezes Menezes itibaren Carrigane, Co. Cork, İrlanda
Eh, it was alright. It was a good story but that was about it for me. Characters didn't seem very developed, like they only had 2 1/2 dimensions to them. The detail and lengthy descriptions of surgical procedures were neat the first couple of times but really dragged on as the book carried on. I didn't really feel like they were immersed in the culture of Ethiopia. It almost felt like they were seeing Ethiopia from a viewing platform, at a safe distance. As for the writing, it seemed as though everything happened very conveniently - like the author was trying to force situations to happen. I could tell that the author was not trained as a writer. While reading this book, I couldn't help but think of some similarities with Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible. Maybe this provided some sort of bias in my opinion towards the book because of how outstanding the Poisonwood Bible was.