A review by shano25
Almost Gone by John Baldwin, Mackenzie Baldwin

2.0

This should be a book about teenagers and social media, internet safety, and the dangers that can come with meeting people online. But it wasn't. I get it, this is a Christian book and faith is very important to the family. I'm a Christian so it didn't bother me that the book had religious tones but their faith and their daughter's conversion to another religion took too much of the time. The book paints the Muslim man on the other side of the world as this man who is intent in doing violent and harmful things to their daughter when really it seems that the guy was just looking to get American citizenship. Which happens every day by people of ALL religions. Yes he scammed their daughter and there is a very important lesson here but it feels like they just skim over that part of it in favour of promoting their religion over another.