Joanne Renaud’s Reviews > Seize the Fire > Status Update

Racist and twee-- no thanks. DNF

I just started reading Seize the Fire after a tentative recommendation from a friend. It’s very well written, BUT but I could do w/o the racist caricature of the (white) hero's Middle Eastern Muslim servant, Mustafa. He's introduced as high-larious comic relief, and moreover, is described sliding up and down banisters "like a monkey up a palm tree." JESUS. It's straight out of a 1930s movie.