A review by brogan7
We Meant Well by Erum Shazia Hasan

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This is a harsh story.  I can't quite decide if it was needed or not.  By the end I felt the author treated her own characters as disposable
Lele could only have a defensible injury if it was more than a sexual assault, if it was public and visible, and Maya could only have power by avenging Lele's attack, letting others mete out brute justice.  This last didn't seem likely to me, neither did Chantal's late awakening to her partner's true colours.

However, the ending isn't the whole book, and the story carries with it many important insights into colonialism and relationships between countries and continents, people trying to help, people doing damage in various ways.  
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