Review: A very odd book
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2014
I really wanted to like this book because it has a different tone to it and is set in unusual locations - the Middle East and Italy.  However, the story teller's art is not quite up to the task and we are sort of left meandering with a heroine who seems unable to act on her own behalf.  I sort of liked how we hear much of the story from her point of view and how she changes her perceptions over the course of time.  I also liked the limited perspective we get as we also try to understand what is going on in the heroine Averill's life.In the end, I just grew frustrated by the mysteries only partially disclosed, by the selfishness and lack of caring of most of the people surrounding Averill, and her own rather fuzzy development as a character.  In the end, I just lost interest.