Helpful Score: 1
This is the true story of a writer who investigates an old theft in the Florida Everglades. The character she's writing about is truly a character. This starts slow but i found myself fascinated with the orchid world and how the people who love them - who are obsessed with them, operate. I now own about 20 or so orchids myself; that's since I read the book! This was edifying/enriching but a very strange topic.
I just finished this book tonight and am sitting here pondering what in the world possessed me to order it in the first place. I must have thought it would involve a good mystery or something. I sure didn't expect it to go that deep into orchids, the weirdness of those who worship them, the many illegal ways they're obtained, and talk of a swamp over and over..and over. The main character, John Laroche was boring at best. It's like he used the Indians to do his dirty work and then got off scott free. I sincerely hated this book. I kept reading hoping it would get better but it didn't. I was really disappointed with the ending...the ever elusive ghost orchid that the whole book talked about and never finished with. Just a terrible, terrible book.
