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Reviewed by Stephanie Dagg for Readers' Favorite
"Seouled Out" by Andrew Henderson-Henderson is a fast-paced, energetic, entertaining read. It recounts how the author went abroad to teach English after finishing law school in a less than glorious way. The idea is to earn money to pay his bills and have an interesting experience. The latter is certainly achieved, but the hope of riches is a false one. Our hero has an astounding number of memorable adventures. He has run-ins with officials and fellow teachers and suspect alcohol, but strikes up good relationships with many of his pupils and makes many interesting observations about life in South Korea and Thailand, seeing both the tragic and the humorous sides. Finally, having run out of money, he returns to the US, specifically to Boise in Idaho, and here the book becomes briefly unsettling as we find it is now a third person narrative about another person altogether. But when you think carefully about the main character’s name - Owen D’Monet - you relax. This is still our guy.
The book has a warm, friendly feel to it. It is almost as though you are having a conversation with the author. He has a keen eye for details and isn’t scared of being brutally and self-deprecatingly honest. You learn a lot about him and life in general as an expat in these Asian countries as you are dragged along at high speed through this book. You end up being extremely glad that the author failed his bar exams and was forced to make this life-changing and fascinating foray into foreign parts.
