Review: Snappy dialogue BUT
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2012
This was a craaaazy mismash.  Could not figure out what the author's point was?  World Peace?  Seriously, there's a fairly long scientific discussion of the importance of bees and polination and world devestation without them (which is cool, I follow bee health, but seemed totally forced and out of context) and a mysterious jade statue that - like a butterfly's wings flapping will make a typhoon, regulates the bees. But there's also Costa Rican jail, armed mercenaries, falls down jungle cliffs, nights spent out in the jungle by someone who would be more likely to be on the "Real Housewives" series - and a jarring disconnect as a love story rekindles and grows, and a character finds "herself."  It was kind of fun until the lectures and the navel gazing revelations and the absolute crazy disconnect of glossing over what started it all.  That was odd and really took away from the book, as did the focus on bees when I'd so much rather have been reading about the aromatherapy healing cures found in the rainforest - odd that that was given very little importance compared with the "man's" work!  Would have been dissapointed if it hadn't been free.  I was also equally confused about the message sent to women by the author, as the heroine found her personal power she also found a lot more self blame and a lot less justifiable blame.  I really questioned the explanation of the opening scene as the SLIGHT SPOILER!!!contrast between I had to do it, and I was doing it wispering Spanish endearments was jarring, and made it all the more unlikely for such a happy ending.