I was entranced by the setting of this story and eagerly wanted to dive further in, but I had a hard time relating to the main character and DNF'd at about 30%. Thank you to the publishers for a gifted copy of this book.

Perhaps I overlooked a few clues early on about a mystery within this tale of accident-prone tourists thrown together on a journey through a recently reopened country in Southeast Asia. While I enjoyed the set-up of a motley crew of Americans acting out their own quirks and oddities on a tour of thinly veiled Myanmar (acknowledged in the author’s postscript) I wished for a faster pace along the way. Well written and evocative descriptions of place. There is a plot here but it can be hard to find behind all of the chatty descriptions of the tour group’s likes, dislikes and near disasters. Worth looking for her previous works to see how she puts her talents to use on other projects.