Search - How To Be Lost

I ordered this book from pbs on a whim and was pleasantly surprised. I had just read a "women's fiction" book that I despised because it was poorly written and so cliched that I knew everything that was going to happen chapters ahead of when it did and this was the perfect antedote: well written and with characters I found believable and likable. I read it over a weekend away and that's what it was perfect for.

Besides the hum-drum nature of the author's writing, this book was impossible to read due to the slapshot editing of the various storylines. A reader has to be committed to learning from or finding out what happens to the main character from the beginning in order to go through the torture of reading disconnected storylines. In this book, from page one, the main character is a whining loser with almost no personality, a trait from which she never recovers throughout the narrative. I'd classify her as a fool on a fool's mission.

Give this one a miss.

I loved this book, wonderful writing, and easy to follow. A great story.

I found the ending rather abrupt. However, I enjoyed the parallel storylines of the two women. The backstory seemed slightly tedious at times, but it was necessary to understand what'd happened; nothing revealed is gratuitous.