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Not bad, not great. I liked the setting & context--in modern-day Afghanistan--as well as the perspective the author chose to write the novel from, that of of a young Afghan who gets recruited into a special Afghan army unit. The author--who served in the US military on several tours in Afghanistan (those tours usually being 6 months or so)--tries hard & has learned some about Afghan, specifically Pashtun, culture, but there were things that just weren't completely accurate and were a little hard
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Feb 07, 2015
Sarah
marked it as just-curious
Feb 23, 2019
Kristen Iworsky
marked it as to-read
