How disappointing. The themes of ‘American heroes’ never sat right with me but in this book i couldn’t stand it anymore. Also the lack of ANY bipoc characters and the very whiteness of these books was just boring.
The only black characters in this series are the disadvantaged one she meets in Uganda? Yeah, no. Describing the air as ‘African air’ being asked ‘you’ve never been to Africa before?’ when she’s in Uganda? Uganda ≠ Africa ffs.
Being made to seem oh so great by adopting kids from Uganda and S.Korea but they’re clearly not going to teach them about their cultures I mean they changed the S.Korean kid’s name from Mishil to Misha ffs.
I can’t with this author anymore there were other issues too but I’m done.