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A review by hilaryrowell
Long Time Lost by Chris Ewan
3.0
Good but too long
I did enjoy this book although it has some major flaws. It is a good story and has enough sense of mystery and jeopardy to keep you reading. It is too violent for me at times, and this nudges the moments of tension too much towards nauseating. It is also about 100 pages too long, making the reader thoroughly sickened by the caricatured, one dimensional baddies 3/4 of the way through. The central characters Miller and Kate are too self absorbed to be sympathetic, but the sidekick characters of Becca and Hanson are delightful and easily make up for the shortcomings of the others. It is a tour of Europe as the story, which has an interesting structure, takes them to, among other places, Berlin, Switzerland and Rome, and each setting is beautifully described. I would recommend it for a holiday read as it's a cracking story, but with the above proviso that it's not perfect.
I did enjoy this book although it has some major flaws. It is a good story and has enough sense of mystery and jeopardy to keep you reading. It is too violent for me at times, and this nudges the moments of tension too much towards nauseating. It is also about 100 pages too long, making the reader thoroughly sickened by the caricatured, one dimensional baddies 3/4 of the way through. The central characters Miller and Kate are too self absorbed to be sympathetic, but the sidekick characters of Becca and Hanson are delightful and easily make up for the shortcomings of the others. It is a tour of Europe as the story, which has an interesting structure, takes them to, among other places, Berlin, Switzerland and Rome, and each setting is beautifully described. I would recommend it for a holiday read as it's a cracking story, but with the above proviso that it's not perfect.