I really enjoyed Nicole Mones’ previous book, Lost in Translation, so I eagerly picked up this one, hoping it would be just as good. I didn’t like it quite as much as I liked the previous book, though it was well written and had very interesting characters.
The main character of the novel was an appraiser of porcelain, and traveled to China to look at a collection, and uncover a sort of mystery. I really don’t have an interest in porcelain, so the descriptions of it had a tendency to seem endless, making me want to skim through them to get to the main story. The main character made the book much more interesting, as she had a hearing loss that she used to her advantage, something that improved her memory and made her more vulnerable to the world around her.
I didn’t find the mystery of the novel very compelling, but the love story certainly was. Nicole Mones is a very talented author and I will certainly read her again, even if she writes about porcelain.
