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The story or twice a story of two women 60 years apart who end up on Easter island. Both the women had some similar situations such as husbands who betrayed their trust.

Enjoy! RABCK to hobbit for Sapphire release challenge 2021 for the 666 reading challenge

Received safely, with thanks. It looks interesting.

I succumbed to the temptation of an easy read and completed the Pacifica category already, so this will be a good start on next year's Around the World challenge. My available books are always open for a trade or return RABCK.

This was an interesting story, and I'm glad I was able to pick it up at this moment. I just attended a travel presentation by someone who had gone to Rapa Nui / Easter Island, and also watched a little documentary program about the moai statues and history of the island. That history, and the research leading to what we understand, is one of the themes of this book so it really added to my experience.

I'm counting this toward the 666 Around the World Reading Challenge for 2022, for Pacifica / Rapa Nui.

Sending to the winner of the Global Sweeps. Congratulations.

Thank you very much hobbit (and booklady331)! The book arrived safely today. Leafing through the pages I kept discovering pieces of paper and carton that might serve finely as book marks too.

The setting of the story is fascinating, the premise seems interesting and I'm intrigued!

One more book/author discovered through BookCrossing, it's a great "place" to be!

Let me start by telling that I disagree with the trend of labeling books by genre all the time. Following specific structures and using same old same old tropes and patterns deprive originallity and creativity from books. On the other hand, some authors are better than others when they try to write a more composite, sophisticated work, to touch on many varied subjects, themes, writting styles and techniques.

I don't want to write spoilers here, but "Easter Island" falls on this trap. Trying to follow many different threads and to point to many different directions, it ends up a bit of a mess, disjointed and all over the place.

I think that each reader will find parts of the book to like and parts of the book to detest according to their bias. For me, the fictional part was very badly written. I found the characters and plots too weak and full of flaws, while I was expecting the different story lines to connect somehow tightly, but the author decided to leave many loose threads hanging around at the end. The many flash-backs on the 1970s story tired me out and the subject matters bored me after a while, while at first the 1910s story was narrated on a somehow artifical, ornate language that irked me- thankfully latter it got more natural. The huge coincidence that sets some things into motion towards the end of the book/the 1910s story got into my nerves.

What I enjoyed most was the non-fiction part of the book. All in all, although the author felt she had to throw infromation in my face all the time, what I enjoyed most is the setting of the Easter Island, its interesting history and culture, the reports when outsiders "discovered" it, its geology and plants, the scientific research and projects taking place there, the daily life during recent decades and all things Easter Island in general. There is lots of feedback, trivial and not so trivial in this book and the author covers more or less all aspects surrounding the subject.

An interesting book, but not great. I'm glad I read it though. Thanks once again : )

Easter Island will travel to Georgia now, through the First Sentences Virtual BookBox - Round 21!

First Sentence:
The decisive moment for Germany's fleet in the Great War was, indisputably, its ill-timed arrival at the Faulkland Islands.

Thank you, Delphi_Reader. It looks interesting and thematic - I received it just between two Easters :)