liberrydude 's review for:

A Well-Tempered Heart by Jan-Philipp Sendker

4.0

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This is so unlike the books I normally read. Sendker just sucks you in. He's like a Burmese Pearl Buck with his stories of love, karma, and tragedy. This is the sequel or book number two in which we find Julia ten years after her big trip to Burma to find her father. She's in NYC and her life is sort of on a plateau of boredom and she's coping with a break-up when she starts hearing voices-actually one specific voice. To quiet the voice she decides to return to Burma to seek out her half-brother. Once there we hear another amazing narrative of human perseverance, karmic justice, and so begins another quest or road trip in Burma to find the special someone with the key. Lots of interesting action and decisions by Julia at the end. You just know there has to be, must be another book about her continuing adventures to find herself.