A review by j00j
Snow, Fire, Sword by Sophie Masson

1.0

Some of my classmates more familiar with Indonesian culture noted that this did have a very Indonesian feel, but that there were some things (particularly with regard to the deities) that were just not right, in a way that didn't seem to make sense for the alternate universe Masson was creating. There are some neat things in this book, but ultimately we all felt like it came down on the wrong side of cultural appropriation.

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Also, I was very disappointed that a fundamentalist Muslim character turned out to be the bad guy after all. It looked for awhile like he was going to be an important good character, but no, bad. What a cliche.