Passage

This is a good story, but unfortunately the author has chosen to make it about 50% longer than it should have been (600 pages vs 400 pages) due to a lot of needless repetition. Nevertheless, it rewards the patient reader with some beautifully-descriptive prose.

Willis' narrative hallmarks are here: good people trying to solve a mystery, while being plagued with annoying secondary characters, and trying to navigate a morass of miscommunication created by their own less-than-optimal choices.

This one is a bit more heartbreaking than most of Willis' stories, but it still ends on a hopeful note. I liked very much that the book not only does not fall into religious mysticism, it refutes it.