When an author doesn't do enough research on the correct spelling of some important landmarks in a country he is writing about, it is not a good start to be honest. I don't find the characters in this book sympathetic at all and the style of writing is not my cup of tea. I won't recommend this book.

This book challenged my determination to complete every book I start reading. It has a very pretentious style of writing and is sprinkled with fancy words, often not meaning what the author thought. It could be used as an example for teaching how to write as it is full of pathetic fallacies and malaprops. I wanted the story to be enjoyable, but the author is apparently willing to sacrifice reality to make political points.. While I completely agree with much of the author's viewpoints, the clumsy presentation turned me off.

This book seemed interesting when I read the synopsis. I just couldn't get into it. The chapters seemed choppy. I will admit that this genre is outside of my comfort zone but it just wan't for me. If I am completely honest I ended up skimming most of the book since I wasn't invested in any of the characters. I felt like there was no plot development and the formatting was hard to follow. Every 5 sentences was a new paragraph with a space in between. I realize it was an ARC so hopefully that would change.

At first, the premise seems promising, but it executed poorly.
It just feel that the novel has no meaningful plot and not enticing at all. I've tried to look for positive things from this book, whether its plot, character or the writing style but sadly I think this book is not for me.

I was not a fan of this book. It felt like the author was just filling pages in some spots. I also felt it was disconnected in many ways between the Philippine’s and the character. It mostly was about his sexual transgressions in the Philippine’s. I finished the book hoping it would get better however he then ends up in the US with more ridiculous problems.

Uhhhhh, not what I thought but I stayed with it even though the 'intimate' scenes were unnecessary at times. The writer is spot on though in the clash of the two countries as I had visited them both several times during my military service. Lets' call this "an adventure and geography". I think it will be well received.

Its very rare that I absolutely pan a book but unfortunately its this one that get panned. The synopsis sounded like it would be an exciting storyline I found it anything but and found myself more skim reading the book to see if it got better... it didn't!