Ze (Honno modern fiction)

It's very hard to think what to say about this book. The premise was interesting and the story was not too bad. I did enjoy the writing but it was hard to connect to any of the characters.

A woman, Xana, leaves her husband and drifts into a relationship with Jamie, a very troubled young man. When she finds out that he was adopted she decides to find out what happened to his parents. This takes her to a remote Indonesian island.

I think my main problem was that both of the main female characters were just insipid. They drift into circumstances without any real control of their own lives. This was debut novel and I might read another book by Renee Smith if she publishes one.