A review by internationalreads
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León

informative tense fast-paced

4.0

This book’s main achievement is humanizing smugglers in Latin America. The reader definitely sees beyond the headlines after reading this book. A few irritating points for me, though - he touches on race and gender but not as much I’d like (especially gender), and a lot of the quotes and conversations felt very awkward, like I could tell what the original Spanish probably was and the English translation was stilted. And why were so many presented in Spanglish? Like the author left one or two words in Spanish? Super weird to me. There were also a lot of times the quotes felt way too perfect for the point the author was trying to make.

Overall though a very informative book that Americans especially should read.