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I’m having a break from this book. Its pace is too 🐌 for my liking!

So far the story is overly planned and doesn’t have good hooks. How likely is it for someone to fly you to the other side of the world and then ask you to go back home the same day? Probably because the uncle was the one responsible for Inez’s parents’ disappearance. How likely is it for someone to make up a story about being a grieving widow just to deal with her own grief? I’m not buying Isabel’s story.

Inez arrives in Egypt and meets her uncle’s assistant, who insists she take the next flight to Argentina. Inez is not pleased, and I don’t blame her. Her uncle doesn’t seem to care about her. The chapter’s arc is flat like a 🥞. The story hasn’t hooked me yet. 🤷🏻‍♀️
The author mixes too many Spanish words with the English, which can be distracting for readers who don’t speak Spanish.

This one will have to wait because I have to finish the Chronicles of Beauty on Dec 22 😬

I read the prologue, and honestly, I don’t think it needed to be stretched to sixteen pages to establish that Inez’s parents died overseas and that she missed them. Yes, it helped me understand her attachment issues, that her parents were archaeologists, and her relationship with her aunt and cousins. But she’s on her way to Egypt, where they lived, and will have plenty of opportunities to remember them.

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
-HENRY JAMES

I picked this book because it has mixed reviews and I don’t believe it’s that bad!