Review: Transports You to a Fascinating World
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2014
This novel definitely grips you from the start and immediately lets you know that this is going to be an enrapturing novel about robbery, deceit, love, money, greed, and a dozen other elements that have the potential to make it great. The best thing, however, was the impeccably written characters, particularly their methods of speech, their explicit personalities that bubble and blend into a mesmerizing storyline. When you are able to create so many interesting characters and interweave their lives in this sort of setting, it can be something very special.The author has so much experience in this industry that the exposition could have been potentially boring, but he is clearly so passionate about opals, mining, and Australia that the setting becomes another character that I was just as interested in, if that makes any sense. Despite the fact that this could have been a rather surface-level story set in an intriguing place, the author also managed to do some intense philosophical explorations of human motivation and the complexity of relationships under the pressure of moral dilemmas. Basically, this was a book that this author was born to write - and anyone who picks this out as their next summer read will NOT be disappointed.