Review: Just missed caring
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2014
This is a book that brought back memories.  Thankfully not of Bolivia and the various nefarious characters who people this book.  The memories were of press junkets when I was much younger and a journalist.  The descriptions of the travel writers, as well as other journalistic and pr types was spot on.  The symbiotic relationships where avarice and integrity try to exist together was quite honest.  I wish I had liked the characters a bit better because I may have become more invested in what happens to them than I was.  Jacob, Pilar, Hilary- the entire cast just missed making me care.  Jacob was clever and funny but he was not noir enough to be the cynical good/bad guy nor empathetic enough to pull off the nice-but-flawed hero.  It didn't miss the mark by much and someone else might love this book.  It is well written and has an interesting plot but for me, it was 3 1/2 stars.