A review by murffinator
Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together, by Ron Hall, Denver Moore
3.0
I'm having a hard time reviewing this book. On the one hand, I loved Denver's story and it shocked me that the horrible situation he grew up in was not only commonplace but occurred in the 1960's. The connections that evolve and the positive things that happen through difficulty and suffering were very real.
On the other hand, I do feel the writers got a bit preachy and were attributing things to God without actually letting the reader decide whether it was God or not, which to me breaks the classic "show don't tell" rule. So while the story itself is moving, I do wish they'd have let the reader draw their own conclusions on how involved God was without trying to tell you that God did this and God did that. I'm a Christian, and I would completely understand how a reader who isn't would feel preached at and told how to interpret the events.
On the other hand, I do feel the writers got a bit preachy and were attributing things to God without actually letting the reader decide whether it was God or not, which to me breaks the classic "show don't tell" rule. So while the story itself is moving, I do wish they'd have let the reader draw their own conclusions on how involved God was without trying to tell you that God did this and God did that. I'm a Christian, and I would completely understand how a reader who isn't would feel preached at and told how to interpret the events.