Review: Jaw dropping and interesting
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2013
So I read some of the reviews and some people were appalled others liked it, so I just went in. Tanin is an Indian woman living in South Africa during apartheid and works for a very racist white South African, Tarago in his restaurant. He wants her, she despises him and it is a roller coaster from there. Since it takes place in South Africa the racial slurs are different and hard to understand. Like Indians are called Blacks and things like that. It's actually interesting to see racism in another part of the world, I know that sounds weird but it was interesting. Tarago eventually uses his pull to get Tanin and she suffers terrible abuse (emotional and mental) from him and his friends. If you can't handle blatant racism, I'd say pass, but I liked the book, enough to get the second. Sometimes books aren't what they seem and this is definitely one of them.