Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - reviewed on 9/2/2012 + 207 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

This book gets very good at the end. However, during the first 300 pages or so, the story is more suspenseful for the characters, who are trying to figure out whats going on, than for the reader, who mostly already has. The research was excellent, though the author often enlightens her reader through characters unlikely thought processes: x wouldnt have existed at such-and-such a time or y didnt come along until the 19th centurynot the most sophisticated storytelling technique. I liked the book, but just enough. It was not nearly as good as I had expected, and Im not sure, knowing what I do now, that I would spend the time on it again.

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