Review: Disappointing finish to a nice series
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 28, 2014
After reading this, I think the series should have stopped with Tamara and Kosumi's story.  Tamara's crazy cousin Charlie is looking for a safe home for his daughter, so he decides to head for Honon's tribe.  He gets there and finds out not all is safe and wonders if he made the right choice.  Hmmm, pretty boring, and his character is fairly ridiculous with very strange logic loops.The plot revisits again themes of spousal abuse (gee, it happens everywhere) - but I struggle a little bit with why it's OK to kidnap women and hold them against their will, but then say taking it one step further - hitting them - is where it all goes wrong.  It's all wrong - but then the "noble savage" part wouldn't work.It was nice to catch up with how Dani's, Karen's, and Tamara's life had moved on - but there really wasn't much of a story other than old friends want to meet up and see each other again.  And this was not enough to make this story anything more than passable.