If you have a fascination about the origins of humankind and the people who helped uncover many of those mysteries, then you’ll love this work of fiction based on the life of famed anthropologist, Mary Leakey

I was intrigued both by the description and the absolutely gorgeous cover, but I was a bit let down by the writing style. I didn’t feel like it flowed very well and it felt a bit “heavy” with telling instead of showing. Also the dialogue felt a bit awkward at times.

However, it was very interesting to read about Mary and her work since I was not very familiar with her prior to reading this book. As a fan of historical fiction I love it when the characters actually have excited in real life and you get to know them a bit more through a book, even if it’s fiction.

I love paleo-anthropology and was excited to read a fictional book about a real life person. It had that element that I was looking for and thought the feel really worked well together with what I wanted. I had enjoyed other works from Penny Haw and this had that writing style that I was expecting and thought the characters were wonderfully done. It uses the dual timeline perfect and thought the concept worked overall. It had that realism that I was looking for and glad I got to read this.