and that's really too much for the reader to handle. which I could do for awhile, but eventually the plot points just get piled too high, and the story sort of topples over on itself. Unfortunately, the storyline requires a definite willingness to suspend belief. On the plotting side, Patchett starts out slow (which makes sense given her more literary roots), but ends up at a full fledged gallop by the time Marina gets deep into the Amazon. In my mind, she didn't fully succeed at either and ended up with a book that was engaging, but ultimately mediocre. So, Patchett is essentially trying to write a crossover book that is both genre (suspense) and literary fiction. Second, she needs to find out what happened to the employee who was sent earlier to investigate the same situation. First, she must investigate whether a scientist who was hired by the company to develop a new drug is actually doing anything of the sort. The protagonist of this book, Marina, is sent to the Amazon by her company with a two fold mission.
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