A review by yyc_heather
The Headmaster's Wager by Vincent Lam

4.0

I enjoyed this book a lot more than I expected to. Percival Chen is a highly flawed character: sexist, racist, and an authoritarian parent. And yet I found myself liking him more as the book went on, in large part because he's not entirely stuck in his ways, and events cause him to reassess his beliefs and values. I agree with some other reviewers that the book gets off to a slow start, but given that most Western readers know next to nothing about the Vietnam war (outside of the American experience as portrayed in movies), it takes a while to set the scene.