Review: Had Me Stumped--Not Easy to Do!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2013
Ms. Parzefall had me guessing all the way through "Crumple Zone" as to how Enrique and Lara would meet.  I thought maybe she'd end up driving drunk and put him in the hospital, preventing him from getting home to his wife and sons.  The question was...where?Chile is a long, thin country and according to Ms. Parzefall who has lived and traveled in South America, the Atacama Desert is something like five-hundred miles long, snaking along the sides of mountains above deep stone quarries and the Pacific Ocean.  I wondered if either Enrique or Lara might end up at the bottom of a quarry or in the sea.  Rick, the Australian back-packer Lara picked up might have swept her off her feet and persuaded her to return to Australia with him where the people she encountered would at least speak a form of English and she wouldn't have to look things up in her handy/dandy English/Spanish or vice/versa dictionary to communicate.They even glimpse each other and interact briefly before they "meet" on the road.  But once they met, I still had questions that were not quite answered until the very end of the book--when Ms. Parzefall wanted me to know the full answers.  I was constantly speculating about what might be waiting around the corner, and much of the time I was wrong.  I highly recommend "Crumple Zone."  If it kept me guessing, it'll keep you guessing, too.