A review by dontpanic42
Inland by Téa Obreht

2.0

I really love the piece of history—camels in the old west—that inspired this book. And Obreht writes lovely sentences that work best when read slowly and carefully. Sadly for me, the storylines here just never quite captured me. There are two storylines that will, of course, eventually intersect. But within the stories I found the narrative wanting, with vagaries in the plot and somewhat one-dimensional or archetypical characters. And I found the ultimate intersection of the stories was anticlimactic. In the end, I’m left with a novel that never quite fulfilled its promise.