Okay, so I admit, I’m starting this without actually finishing the book, but I needed to take a moment to stop and reflect.
The first two parts of this book are really what lead Frances Frankowski to her job and mission in Navel Intelligence. I was beginning to wonder, honestly, when we were going to meet Ainslie Conway, the man we know from the beginning that Fanny is going to marry. That being said, having some clue of where this book was going did make the journey through parts one and two more bearable. We knew that she would marry Ainslie and that they were going to be part of the war effort. We even knew (though not through the actual text of the book but rather from the dust jacket) that they would be going to the Galapagos Islands.
The story has drawn me in. I want to know what’s going to happen to Fanny and Ainslie out in the Islands. There is a little feeling of jumping off of a cliff going into Part Three though. While Fanny’s life so far has been fairly by-the-seat-of-her-pants, there is this sense that her life has been fairly tame before this and that everything is going to change quite rapidly.
I’m definitely looking forward to Part Three.