This was my 15th book finished in 2025. 

I liked this book, don't get me wrong. But I have a few complaints.

The references to slavery in this book are certainly a better depiction than what was shown in older HH books (ie, not talking about it at all), but it's still so surface level in this book. 

Secondly, stop calling Native Americans "Indians"! Your colonial mindset is showing. Sure, I appreciate you're not sugarcoating Columbus and therefore exposing him as the slave trader he is (I read his book), but the author referring to the slaves with the derogatory and ignorant name bestowed upon them by their enslaver feels so ick. They were the Arawak people, natives of the Americas, NOT Indians. And Columbus enslaved them all until every single one was dead. Genocide. So you can show a little respect to them. The same goes for all references to Native Americans in the book - it's such dated and offensive language.

The author also seems to attempt to justify the treatment of native populations, saying they "deserved it" by how they acted. This is such a Euro-centric and colonial view point, and I thought we were past this old mindset by now.

I spotted quite a few errors in the text: double words, missing punctuation, missing spaces between words. It just seemed sloppy.

What I loved about this book was the fact that parts of history were highlighted from areas never usually covered by HH; China, Africa, North America. There definitely needs to be more focus on these places in the future of HH books. Sure, I knew about most of these "days", but some were new to me.

There was just about enough to gain my interest and do my own further research if I wanted to. But there seemed to be such inconsistency with how much was written for each "day". Some were just brushed over, whilst others had more focus.