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Literally shouted out loud when I recognised a character from last time I read it. Cat got worried and jumped up to see what was wrong 🤣😅 reading this 8 years later makes me really appreciate how important characters are introduced.

A pleasure to read every time

Very amusing! The drawings really make it. I actually lol'd!

mentions to shrugging, kissing on foreheads, and squeezing hands... How does he know this?? No reference to a source to say this actually happened.

Just double checked and it's definitely down as nonfiction, biography and history. Not sure how the author knows when a person spat something they said or smiled without seeing the references they got them from.
If it was a historical fiction novel based on real facts, I would rate the book quite highly. However, I'm not sure how it can claim to be the "true story" when there aren't in-text references or footnotes.

Hard to tell what is fact and what is the authors opinion. No references for the many dialogues between people. I can only assume they have been expanded on by the author to make the story entertaining. Where there are in-text references, it's for large sections of text but without any analysis of debate.

Reads like a story rather than an academic book. Not much analysis. Quotes from other sources seem to be used to provide the authors point of view only.

I'm finding it difficult to keep reading at the moment. It's detailed, but unfortunately quite boring.

Horrified

I can't express how much I'm enjoying this book. I have an invisible disability too, and there's so many internal thoughts the main character has that I think too - that I'm ashamed of. It's also nice to read a book showing such a rich religious culture, I love to read about new cultures

The author is really good at pacing the story and keeping suspense. Your interest is at just the right level to make you want to keep reading without wanting to skip forward - you want to experience the full journey of the character without missing anything.