Review: I gave up: too much exposition
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2013
I just quit reading at 1/5 into this book out of sheer frustration There is more exposition here than plot. A good editor could have helped here. Cutting out dead wood is a basic requirement for authors. The characters could have been introduced with fewer, well chose words. A couple of phrases would have saved us having to read about Carson's infantile attachment to a model's poster and hauling it all the way to the Navajo reservation.I know Kayenta, I know the Navajo, and one would have had to been educated under a rock to know nothing about the Long Walk, the Trail of Tears and Kit Carson role in the Native American pogrom.  Carson's self centered stupidity I could have taken if it hadn't taken tons of pages to get him to the Kayenta clinic.I was not induced to care one whit for any of the characters. Characters are not built on oil money, art collections, and art galleries. I didn't even care enough to remember tell the characters apart.I took this waste of time off my kindle.If you want a good book on the Navajo Reservation, check out Tony Hillerman, Amy and David, Thurlo (although they have made some major missteps), Jake Page, or if you are just interested in Native American mysteries, read Peter Bowen, Kirk Mitchell, Stan Jones (AK trooper) Margaret COel or James Doss.