pearl35 's review for:

Les vacances de Mma Ramotswe by Alexander McCall Smith

3.0

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This is a really interesting addition to the series. The author has caught on to something readers already did, that Mma Ramotswe can be smug, meddlesome and a bad boss, in the sense that she can't see her former assistant as she has grown--into the capable wife of a wealthy businessman, mother and more than a match for the detective agency's problems. When pushed to take a vacation, Mma Ramotswe find a child in trouble to investigate, but also undermines the agency as it operates just fine without her, to the point of nearly sabotaging a case and leaving a storm of hurt feelings with close friends. Mma Ramotswe has to grow and change with the development of her family and friends, even while holding on to the best of Botswanan traditional values.