Yeah, I felt honestly disappointed in both Cathy and Laon for being ... maybe not for being as codswalloped by the "Cathy isn't a changeling!" twist because I get that's a hard thing to wrap your head around twice ... but for the way in which they were codswalloped? Like, if it's that horrifying to them, then Laon was being a giant hypocrite every time he reassured Cathy that she was his real sister in every way that counted, and no one grapples with that at all ...

Yeah, I did appreciate Ng's willingness to enter completely and unironically into the headspace of her evangelizing protagonists while using the interstitial texts to highlight the awfulness inherent in the entire Christian missionary enterprise, but I often had conflicted feelings about ... the way it was presented? Especially in re: Mr. Benjamin, like, I'd have an emotion about Mr. Benjamin gaining the comfort of genuine faith, and then I'd have to stop and re-examine that emotion in the context of conversion and colonialism ...