Received from Harper Collins Face Book Summer Reading Group.

I really enjoyed this for many reasons. The novel is really fast paced and full of physical action - not something I normally enjoy reading about, but it works very well in this novel and so integral to the plot that I actually looked forward to the next confrontation.

The characters are believable people. Some of them were not very well fleshed out - Jayalitha could have been more rounded and although her character played such a small part physically in the novel, she reveals so much information and really launches the last third of the book that I thought she deserved more page time.

Laurent was just evil through and through and I never did warm to him. Danielle seems naive for all she's been through before the novel starts, but then again, being a "rich girl" afforded her a sense of protection that was not necessarily real.

I liked the first third of the book the best. All the other novels about India that I have read, romanticize the poverty and sickness, making it seem a sense of strength. This novel shows the poverty, the sickness, the corruption in all its cruel, realistic terms and there is no shrinking from the fact that as Westerners, we lead a charmed life.

The plot, behind the characters' lives - was intriguing and a posed alot of moral questions that made me really stop and think about humanity, drug testing and who has the real power in this world of ours. As well, Kieran's easy access to the web and 7 million computers made me think twice about the internet as a convenience vs the internet as a threat.