Review: Never been to South Africa
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 26, 2012
By page three of this story I had begun getting the hollow-feeling in my stomach that occurs when I sense danger to children and can't do anything about the situation.  Ishmael is a non-hero who gets caught up in something he has no control over either.  Only two other books in my life have given me this sick feeling, and both were classics.  The author has a stupendous ability to describe things, and though I have never been there, can readily imagine South Africa.  The author also has the ability to make dialogue thoroughly believable and reel the reader into his world.  Do I want to go there?  No... but that does not detract from a wonderful story.