This is a detective novel set in Alaska that's one failing is that its over written. Chabon seems to be more concerned about creating flourishing sentences than he is about the story line or characters in the story. He does this so much throughout the story that he looses the focus on the story line and characters. But other than that his characters are interesting (as they normally are in his books) and the stories mystery is interesting enough that I powered through the story. His over all writing is a shame because his story thrives when his characters are together talking or interacting with each other that the stories pace slows when he starts becoming more focused on his words than characters. He's normally a good writer. I've read The Wonder Boys and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - both of which had the characters and story to match the writing, which by no means was over written because they all flowed together in ways a book is supposed to. But with this book I found his writing wanting.
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