Title: Lots of story, little telling
Product review: Each chapter has a dramatic (perhaps melodramatic) event or revelation, but these events are not told with particular style or eloquence. In this sense I agree with the reviewer who says the book reads like the script for a film rather than a novel.... There are plenty of events and characters and conflict, but they are not conveyed in a way to make me believe them or care that much, to experience them in some particular way. Two characters meet and suddenly they are in love. One character gets angry with another, and this is described as "He felt like hitting Dominic, or choking him until his anger went away." Wow. That sentence makes me sense and understand the character's deep emotions. Not.... The novel is filled with very perfunctory characterization. Characters are Mexican because they like tortillas or use an occasional Spanish noun. A character is a veteran because he refers to Vietnam as "Nam." A character is Indian because she feels a "kinship" with nature.
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