Sligar studs her writing with brutally effective imagery of her own invention ... Does knowing the literary ancestry of Vantage Point puncture its illusions? It might explain why the story’s dynamics, particularly as they relate to gender and power, occasionally feel musty. Weighing the novel’s bigger message about inheritance and fate, it’s a curious choice for an author to reconstitute centuries-old characters and consign them to the same narrative arcs generations apart.
Tempestuous ... A few preposterous twists tilt the plot toward soap opera territory, but Sligar’s nuanced, psychologically complex characters provide sufficient counterweight.
