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The Four Corners of the Sky
by Michael Malone (Goodreads Author)
by Michael Malone (Goodreads Author)
I slowly read this between my other books. Finally the book hooked me and I finished it in a week. I've enjoyed this authors other books and this one is just as good. It's a weighty book at 560 pages but doesn't read like it. Divided into four sections for each direction, clever tie in with the title, the main character Annie Samantha Peregrine Goodie is directed along by her estranged but trying-to-reconnect-for-one-last-favor-before-he-die-con-artist father, Jack in an adventure to recover the lost artifact "The Queen of the Sea". Annie's motivation & bargaining chip for helping her father is to find out the name of her Mother who left her at birth.
There is a large cast of characters that you get to learn about in proportion to their importance to the story. There was a lot of back story, as in 3 generations of Peregrines, that was told in flash backs & sometimes it was confusing about why a flash back would start where it did in the story line. Overall though it was I enjoyed learning it all.
Over all i was rooting for Annie to discover her Mother's name, even though she went through and met some pretty crazy characters and situations. The ending of the adventure was a little disappointing because i found it confusing. The final ending of the book though was a nice wrap up.
The story is good for a summer read.
***Possible Spoiler Below****
My one disappointment was I didn't understand Jack's big motivation for the adventure. There was a reference made by Annie that Jack had always talked about pulling a big con like {references that were no-names to me}, so with that in mind i was always questioning, is what Jack's saying a lie or not. At the end when all the smoke & mirrors were revealed & i was supposed to understand how this was Jack's big con - i didn't get it. I think the point was the "bad guys" in Miami paid him a mil for the statue but what they ended up with was a fake - in fact everyone ended up with a fake because there never was a discovered statue to begin with. But it's not perfectly clear. Also, why only a million when all those jewels were huge & worth more alone than in the statute, i would have believed 10x that amount.
There is a large cast of characters that you get to learn about in proportion to their importance to the story. There was a lot of back story, as in 3 generations of Peregrines, that was told in flash backs & sometimes it was confusing about why a flash back would start where it did in the story line. Overall though it was I enjoyed learning it all.
Over all i was rooting for Annie to discover her Mother's name, even though she went through and met some pretty crazy characters and situations. The ending of the adventure was a little disappointing because i found it confusing. The final ending of the book though was a nice wrap up.
The story is good for a summer read.
***Possible Spoiler Below****
My one disappointment was I didn't understand Jack's big motivation for the adventure. There was a reference made by Annie that Jack had always talked about pulling a big con like {references that were no-names to me}, so with that in mind i was always questioning, is what Jack's saying a lie or not. At the end when all the smoke & mirrors were revealed & i was supposed to understand how this was Jack's big con - i didn't get it. I think the point was the "bad guys" in Miami paid him a mil for the statue but what they ended up with was a fake - in fact everyone ended up with a fake because there never was a discovered statue to begin with. But it's not perfectly clear. Also, why only a million when all those jewels were huge & worth more alone than in the statute, i would have believed 10x that amount.
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