The Empty Quarter

While brilliantly written, the story was far from gripping. I had to intentionally finish it, and even then the ending was predictable. It took literally the entire first half of the book to finish setting up characters and get to the action, and then the action was over exactly the way I expected it to be. I will say that the writing was fantastic and I really was able to visualize the scenes because they were described so well. Even so, the book left me disappointed.