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Pros

It is a thoughtful delving into how an anthropologist might find things out, and how conclusions and comparisons might be viewed. Fen's specialty is religious totems and has a secret plan to steal one of the tribes most sacred object. When he achieves...  Read More

Nell stone and her husband fen are married and working together in new guinea. Fen's mind is on a flute he saw with an earlier group he and nell were studying. Andrew bankston is a british anthropologist who is lonely, floundering in his career and is...  Read More



Cons

This is the least compelling, dearth of geographical description, weak dialog, book i have read in awhile. Love triangle is predictable and not inspiring.

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Quality


Author lily king is brilliant with the tension she creates through the characters and the jungle setting


As someone who lived in papua new guineas jungle as a missionary i was especially impressed by the details king included that d...  Read More

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Strange how a ship was our doing and now our undoing

Competitiveness


This story then turns into a love triangle which shows as a team they can be brilliant or as ambitious envious competitors thin...  Read More


Nells husband is intensely jealous of her fame and tries to leave her out of necessary research so that he can replace his wife...  Read More

Overview

  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 1,120 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 17 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Not so fictionalized i beieve except for the ending


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I picked up this book knowing nothing but that it was a novel loosely based on events in the life of margaret mead


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Need to step back and remember that this is and does not ever pretend to be anything but fiction


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    From page two i had to flip back to page one to see if i was accurately remembering what i’d read on page one


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Seemed to have a blind spot for fen’s truest nature despite their astute perceptions they had of each other and everyone else around them and despite many of the the things fen had done that made it clear


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Some parts of the book made me want to scream


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Not sure how i missed this when it originally published


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Neii was a better anthropologist and his ego couldnt take it

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