Seven Moves: A Tightly Told Women's Literary Mystery – A Therapist's Search for Her Vanished Lover in Morocco

I recently reread this book and found it to be so much more than I had originally thought. There are so many wonderful sentences, paragraphs, images to go back over and savor.

I really enjoyed aquamarine so I figured that this book would e just as good. Unfortunately, it wasn't. First of all, Carol Ashnaw writes in a present tense. That got on my nerves a little bit but I learned to put it aside. Second, the book is whiny, everything Christine goes through is so melodramatic. She seems like a sad excise for a human being. I thought the concept would be good but it just isn't. I don't identify with Christine and I don't sympathize with her. Ashnaw tends to jump around a lot in this book, moving from flashback to present time, jumping form the subject of her father to her clients to her lover. It is rather confusing and I lost interest about half way through the book. Christine's trip to Morocco isn't even explored as much as it could be. Ashnaw devotes one chapter of this book to something that is very crucial to the story. This happens many times in the book and I find that it takes away from the seriousness of it. I do like the pace of the story, Ashnaw is good with creating a sense of how mcuh time has passed. I also like the tone of the story, it seems down to earth. Also this story is real-to-life. It could happen to anyone. Unfortunately, I was disappointed with the book. Like I said, aquamarine is an excellent book. This one, not so good.

This book makes for great light reading, can definitely be read in a day or on a plane. The suspense is kept fairly well throughout the book. The characters aren't complex, which means that none of them really capture the heart. Nice to see an LGBT book where the fact of the characters being LGBT isn't the main storyline.

The sentence-by sentence beauty of this book is amazing. The story moves over a lot of time and a lot of characters with surprising grace.

I kept hoping for a happy ending- instead I got a healthy ending. It dragged through a lot of it.