While the cave-man thing can be sexy, so can a modern mindset.Īs for the secondary characters… Some people might have issues with Vernon, who was stereotypical and cartoonish, but I didn’t mind him. I liked that Emerson treated Riley as not a member of the weaker sex but as someone of equal strength, mind and body, and though he’s clearly falling in love with her, he didn’t get all cave-man and order her to stay where she’s safe, forcing her to be defiant and stubborn. The little romantic subplot-not even a subplot, really, more like a thread-was well-woven. Her background is as convenient as Knight’s, honestly, but it works here, because the book isn’t supposed to be taken seriously. She’s a bit cliche in that she grew up in rural Texas with a county sheriff father and four brothers, and that explains why she can hike and shoot, etc. Riley Moon is the straight man (or woman, as it were), representing both the general audience and the ordinary 99 percenters. The story wouldn’t have been nearly as fun or fast-paced-or possible altogether-if they actually had to worry about funding or talking to the right people.
He’s also rich, which bothered me a little, because it’s pure convenience, as is the fact that he had a geophysicist friend and her helicopter-driving father. At first you think he’s going to be annoying, but he’s really rather mellow. I went in knowing nothing but the characters, not even the jacket blurb, and I think I enjoyed it more without being able to anticipate the gags.Įmerson Knight is tall, dark, and handsome, an eccentric of Sherlockian flavor.
I want badly to describe my favorite jokes, but I don’t want to ruin it. Rarely books make me laugh out loud (in a good way), but this managed it several times. Superficial but thoroughly entertaining storytelling, characters that manage to be developed without much backstory, and a fascinating, exciting suspense plot.
I don’t remember much from the first Knight and Moon book, Curious Minds, but I didn’t need to. Their questions lead to a larger mystery that has been guarded by the National Park Service for a century, and as they shed light on the conspiracy, they have to dodge bullets-and hatchets-because someone doesn’t want the truth known. When Emerson Knight’s friend Wayan Bagus, a buddhist monk, discovers the island where he had been living as a hermit has gone missing, Knight and his impromptu, unofficial team of investigators go on an adventure to find out what could possibly have happened to make an entire island disappear.
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