A review by susieliston
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker

2.0

Regeneration, the first volume in ths trilogy, was unique, affecting and memorable. I'll combine the reviews of The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road as I read them in one glob. And sadly, I didn't care much for either one. "Eye" was rather confusing to me, I kept losing track of the story and having to go back and reread to see what I missed, ultimately I realized that I had lost sympathy or whatever for the characters and was just finding the whole storyline plodding and dreary, fact based or no. I hoped Ghost Road would pick up the pace a bit. But no. In both books there are a few riveting moments, but not enough. And when every few pages in GR we have to flashback to Dr. Rivers' experiences with headhunters in the jungle I would sigh and run the risk of skipping something profound by skimming. I just read many five star raves of both books and feel like I must have missed something, so maybe I should be ignored here, I don't know. (Oh, and quite a few reviews warn of some rather raw sex scenes that pop up out of the blue. I actually appreciated them because they woke me up when I was leaning towards dozing off. Although they ARE pretty yucky.)