Review: Tough love - tough to love
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2014
That's a self-made book with lots of faults editing-wise, but what I enjoyed was the setting. I read many negative reviews based on certain events in the book that are indeed hard to digest (dubious consent, hello?!), but this is post-apartheid South Africa (1993) where everything is corrupt, society is rife with violence and guns are everywhere. I found myself rooting for Tanin, the feisty Indian heroine who fights her tormentor and supposed hero Tarago. Actually, he's the epitome of the anti-hero: obnoxious, disgustingly racist, loud, boorish, you name it ... it's there. He's plain non-likable. But still I was eager to read on and see how such a person would manage to turn things around. Ms Rabi manages that in a plausible way. Tough love but it mysteriously worked for me.