A review by robinwalter
Improper Influence by Melissa F. Miller

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

Another good story, but this one spoiled by the starry-eyed adulation for Buddhism. Puerile nonsense like  

 “Buddhists won’t harm any living thing, Sasha. Not even in self-defense. If they find him, he’s as good as dead.”  A Buddhist simply doesn’t value his own life more highly than any other life—whether that other life belongs to an insect, a stranger, or a criminal trying to harm him.” Is hard to read, and 

Rohingya rape camp victims in Myanmar, Muslims and Christians in Sri Lanka, and Muslims in Thailand may find statements like the one above difficult to agree with, I suspect.

That sort of drivel annoys me enough to take me out of the story.