Marcia C. reviewed on 3/2/2014 + 670 more book reviews

I've read and enjoyed four or five of Barr's novels. This one didn't work as well for me as the others. Structurally, the novel is very peculiar and kind of unbalanced: the mystery per se doesn't really get started until the second half of the book. The first half is more of a harrowing adventure story, and it was never clear to me to what extent this was factually based (corresponding to a real place) and to what extent largely made up. Because the mystery got going so late, it was not as suspenseful or thrilling as if it were integrated with the action part of the story.

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