Review: Mediocre writing, but interesting plot
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 16, 2013
This is an unusual book - the writing is too mediocre to ever feel involved in the story, but the plot is a good one.  It reads like an old movie serial - one "peril of Pauline" after another.  Soon you realize that nothing too bad is going to happen, but you don't feel involved enough to really care.  However, the locales chosen for the story are interesting, so it is a fairly good travelog.  I wonder if the problem is that the translation to English is flawed, or was the original really this poorly written.