Title: Rhetorical questions sink this one
Product review: When Marciano sticks with the rules of the white society in modern day East Africa, she's on: her writing is toned and honest and it's loaded with rhythm. When she aims for the true meaning of romance and attachment, her prose falls into one rhetorical question after the next, and the grace of her language fails her. The reader never sees the whys and hows of Esme and Hunter falling in love; the reader is only pounded with the endless chat about how wonderful this phantom love is.As a writer, Marciano should have trusted her instinct and written the compelling story of contemporary East Africa. She should have left the painterly instincts behind, because as she needlessly aims at Dinesen territory, and even as Esme soars through the air in a small plane towards the end of the book, the reader is reminded not of Marciano's story so much as Dinesen's unparalleled prose that so perfectly captured the region over fifty years ago.
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