Despite
good performances, this attempt to
intertwine a crime thriller
with a love triangle never gels... Fans of Ulee's Gold, Ruby in Paradise, and A Flash of Green are likely to
feel disappointed by this decidedly lesser effort.
He assumes a relatively
well - informed reader, one already familiar
with many of the
intertwined historical and ongoing debates charted throughout, and who is perhaps occasionally prepared to pause and read up on a given concept or argument in the event of
feeling the need to engage
with it more extensively.