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This is a smart romance but really not as deep or innovative as so many readers seem to think. Howard, a paleontologist, and Lucy, a journalist, are both intelligent, likable people who have never felt the deep spark of mutual love and intellectual connection. When an accident of history finds them both trapped in the fictional North African country of Callimbia. Callimbia’s history is narrated in the first part of the book parallel to Howard and Lucy’s individual stories. In the second part, th
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Jul 29, 2013
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