Reviews for Explore America

The average rating for Explore America based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-05-05 00:00:00 Dario Ouellet please don't arrange my marriage. and if you must, please don't marry me off to some sickly bitchy thing who will soon die and trap me in my inlaws' house where i will be a burden and where they will treat me like a servant but i won't have anywhere else to go until they in turn ditch me in some creepy city where discarded widows try to make a go of it. just don't do it. it is the worst. this book is pretty good, but my warrior-liberated-woman parts gag when confronted with these types of situations. i am very fortunate to have options and all, but it just makes me angry to see how few opportunities other people have. i am pretty sure this makes me an obnoxious, racist american, but it makes me want to distribute cassette tapes of joan jett and pat benatar to these little girls and dance with them in the streets in perfectly choreographed defiance... i assume this is also how to achieve world peace.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-08-03 00:00:00 Steven Vaughan I know this book is probably for like middle schoolers but I loved it. Koly's parents marry her off without seeing the groom and she ends up married to a sick boy whose parents needed the dowry money for his treatment. It all works out as well as you'd expect but eventually she rebuilds her life. I honestly felt so upset for Koly and the way she was treated through out the book. I loved the writing and the narrative and the details the author added only pulled me in to the story more. I can not believe that if people love their daughters though that they have to pay people to take them like how does that make any sense. I don't think there's anything wrong with raging feminists but I'm usually not one but this whole book made me feel like one because why do women get treated that way honestly. It's just upsetting but the book is excellent.