Emily R. (troyalg) reviewed on 8/2/2018 + 6 more book reviews

This story is not boring. I always felt some interest in the characters and whatever task they were about, be it Robert Louis Stevenson attending the opening of his play or environmental scientist Rafael Salazar tracking coyotes in a California desert. However, the two storylines of past and present always seem distinct, not interwoven much at all until the end, and by then it was too little too late. Both storylines were well written, but I felt like I was reading two different books. I also dislike when so much of a tale is connected by mistakes. People make mistakes and often stories hinge on that, but Stevenson makes mistake after mistake that which to worse and worse consequences, and yet still continues to fail to do what's right. It causes one to believe he was either weak or stupid. At the end, we are supposed to be left with a sense of dread, but the way it plays out there isn't much that has happened present-day to merit that. Overall, the story just doesn't deliver.

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