Title: Fascination followed by tedium and some confusion
Product review: The book starts off well, and the archaological part of it, i.e. finding the artifacts, unearthing the stone sink, were fascinating. But after awhile I became distracted by the writer herself. Who is this woman? Who is this Ed guy? Her husband? Her boyfriend? I'm guessing the latter since she tells everything in the first person -- "I'm buying a house." "I'm on the plane to Paris." It seems pretty clear that the money is all hers. Poor Ed feels like an afterthought, good thing he was so handy around the house. The same goes for all the other people in her story. Okay, maybe it was just meant to be a travel guide, but couldn't she fill us in a little more on the actual life forms with whom she came into contact?Having said that, there were times when I bought into the mood she created entirely and forgot the above objections. After all, who doesn't dream of a fantasy home in Italy?
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