The Lost City of Z

A lost city. A missing explorer. This book screams for instant success.

Instead I'm shelving it at the 100 page mark. The premise is interesting, but the execution was surprisingly poor. It kept alternating between nonfiction and fiction style writing. True enough, the author did an incredible amount of research for the Faucet portion. It was the author's own chapters of his adventure that bored me. I would have enjoyed this much more if the story of faucet had been at the beginning and the author's story followed suit. Jumping between the two timelines was confusing and made it difficult to get into. I am still intrigued by faucet's journey and would love to see a movie based upon it. Sadly this book just needed to be shelved.