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Title: A major disappointment from a writer who can do better.
Review: Nevada Barr's earlier books were fun to read. However, I gave up on "Blind Descent" half-way through. I thought this one would be better but, if anything, it is worse. The writing is turgid and leads nowhere. For example: "The timelessness of a summer evening was the only tase of immortality most humans ever got, and as Anna cherished the soft golden forever, she wished she could capture it, carry it across the harbor to Molly's windowless world." After suffering through dozens of such phrases, I just gave up. She should get back to the kind of writing she demonstrated in "Track of the Cat", "A Superior Death", et al. What could have been a good read turned out (as did "Blind Descent") to be a great big bore. I recommend she re-read Strunk's "Elements of Style."
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