Review: A Thoughtful (But Try-Hard) Tryst
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2014
At the end of the novel "Missing Person," Frank declared her desire to work again with the characters of Aubrey and Bojan. This is the product of that desire, and it delivers almost exactly what readers of the first entry in the two-book series might have expected. Like the first book, this novel contains a few pages of intriguing information in the back which provide some background education on the contents. This is a highly interesting, and also very useful, bit of reading. It helps to show the great deal of thought that Frank puts into her work.This thoughtfulness is also present in the text itself. Frank has a gift for imagery, as well as the sheer musical quality of word combinations. Unfortunately, sometimes this results in heavy prose which can actually interrupt the flow of the storytelling. This is especially upsetting as the story is deserving of a good pace. Of the two main characters, Bojan has arguably been the more interesting one of them since the first book, and he gets an even greater moment in the spotlight this time around.Because Bojan is so interestingly thought out, it is lamentable that something in the story overall feels as if it's being pushed along. This might actually be the case, considering this book is about 100 pages shorter than the last and was published only two months later. It would have been nice to see an even deeper exploration of the organ trafficking world, which as it stands is much more enticing than the romance between Bojan and Aubrey ever was. The pair is still interesting to watch, however, and it would be well worth the wait to see another sequel which takes its time a bit more to convey an intelligent story without leaning too heavily on its occasionally try-hard prose.