It made me pretty uncomfortable and I don't want to know if there are any more of those in this book.ĭaisy is not your typical eleven year old American girl. Like saying it's a miracle the dinner was good because the chef was a tiny Chinese man or something like that. I just read a review which said that the child's character was captured well, so maybe it's just me here.īut really, I stopped reading this because I wasn't comfortable with the author saying some weird things about foreigners. Some of her opinions were decidedly way too grown up and just didn't feel right for a child this young. The main character who is 11 is also written like an adult, with a lot of slangy words only an adult would ever use (and maybe even choose not to), and it just doesn't sound very natural. This is constant, and it bugs me and makes me reread the whole chapter thinking if I've missed anything. Has, but was? Umm? And this is not just one paragraph in one chapter. The tenses are weird - a paragraph can start with "she always has mixed feelings" and end with "was usually doing this and that". Got this book for free when an author sent me an email about it being free on Amazon sever years back.
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