My Personal Impression
When I saw the
sequel was outside, I was quite excited because I had quite fond memories of
the first novel in the series, And Call Me each morning. For various reasons I
described in my own recent review, the first novel didn't work well for me on re-read
as it did back in 2010. I am always a bit nervous when a novel I've enjoyed
gets a sequel - Can it live up to the prior experience? Unfortunately in this
instance, it supplied more of the same rather than anything overall and new, it
ended up being a disappointment.
Jet Lag
The difficulty
for me through the book, was it felt more like it'd been maybe one year since
the first book, not five. Five years into a relationship I might have expected
most of Eli and the problems Zane experience and been dealt with.
Little look on the plot
Both Eli and
Zane became ill were air-lifted out, and when working in Brazil, the result of
drinking bad water and repatriated to Chicago. Zane is back on the job and has
mostly recovered, Eli is a little unstable and it appears Immaculate Grace are
unlikely to find him work when he's prepared. Eli has had of going overseas to
practice enough - he desires to remain home. But he also wants to be with Zane
and he decides he'll continue to follow Zane wherever he'll go because that's
what is most important to him. Rather than, you know, have a dialogue about it.
Taye and Richie
are having some problems also - I found these quite vague and finally
unsatisfying.
Out of the blue,
Marybeth (Eli's ex-wife) starts texting him and needs to meet up. Eli finally
Zane sees holly keeps ignoring the texts and and contradiction ensues. I didn't
really comprehend this. I didn't get it was a secret, why Eli did not only call
the girl and find out what was what. The texts what, coming seemingly from
nowhere, seemed curiously familiar and kind of sexual and there was no set up
or the previous novel because of this to be thus.
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