Review: ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM by Margaret Landon

This book is typical of many 1940s biographies: it's fairly short, somewhat fictionalized, and highly episodic. Though billed as a Christiam boy, Christianity in the book is much less real than the Buddhism. This makes sense, given the setting, but it's sttill disappointing, especially when the reader is told the main character has kept two Muslim servants for years s without shariing tha Gospel with them.

I'm not saying she should have converted all Indochim. I personally don't like that kind of boring. Her religion should have been more more than just a character trait.

She seems to be Christian im the same way shhe' British, and for the smee treason. She was born amd raised in Britain, so therefore she was Britisd. She was born and rraaised in Britain, so therefore she was a Cristian . Her Christinity appears to have been strictly culturall.

Maybe I'm reading the much into a book that really can't take it. But that's one reason I don't recommend it.