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Title: The Headhunter's Daughter
Subtitle: A Mystery
Author: Tamar Myers
Narrator: Molly Elston
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-28-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Tamar Myers returns to Africa in The Headhunters Daughter, the second audiobook in her wonderful mystery series set in the Belgian Congo in the mid-twentieth century - a riveting and atmospheric follow-up to The Witchdoctors Wife.
Raised in the Congo herself, the child of missionaries, Myers uses her intimate knowledge of the people, the culture, and the landscape to add richness to this stunning story of an abandoned infant raised by a tribe of headhunters - a masterful mystery that fans of Alexander McCall Smith and The #1 Ladies Detective Agency will adore.
Members Reviews:
A Poor Follow-up
I read both "The Witch Doctor's Wife" (WIFE) and "The Headhunter's Daughter" (DAUGHTER) this week while on vacation. The former was left by a previous tenant of the condo I'm staying at, and was a serendipitous find. I thoroughly enjoyed how the portrait of the Belgian Congo was drawn alongside the main plot. I also enjoyed the African factoids at the beginning of each chapter. As a result I eagerly downloaded the Kindle version of DAUGHTER. Unfortunately, DAUGHTER appears to be a sequel in search of a story.
Where WIFE flowed seamlessly between details of colonial Africa and the story DAUGHTER is disjointed and many plot elements seemed contrived simply for the sake of highlighting an interesting historical or cultural fact. Several of the characters seemed to have distinct personality changes in the second book, e.g. the OP. And I'm pretty sure there are inconsistencies between the two books (I have no desire to recreate the timelines in detail). Even glossing over the details the plot is much flimsier and doesn't really build to an interesting conclusion. Finally, as mentioned earlier, I really enjoyed the factoids at the beginning of each chapter in WIFE, and these were not included in DAUGHTER (at least in the Kindle version).
Although I feel this book was half-baked at best, there is still a fair amount of interesting details about colonial Africa. If you're intrigued by the premise and haven't read WIFE, I would start there. If you really liked WIFE, there's a good chance you'll at least enjoy this book -- just don't read them back to back.
Fun characters
This book pales in comparison to the Witch Doctors Wife. However, the characters are still fun and you just never know what they will say. It ended without a real conclusion as well. I really only read it so I could get more from the characters of the first book but this one left me a little flat.
Two Stars
Didn't care for this novel.
Enjoyable but not as good as others in this series
This book is thoroughly enjoyable and deserves 5 stars for the sheer pleasure of reading it but I'm giving it 4 stars because I found the multiple story lines to be too busy and tangled. I've read previous books in the series and knew and liked the characters in each of the different story lines, but I found this book to be more scattered than the others in the series.
Wonderful book. The real Tamar Myers.
Interesting plot line, good character development, fabulous setting, and authentic. It is hard to believe the skilled author of these riveting Belgian Congo stories is the same writer of the Magdalena Yoder mush.
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Title: The Headhunter's Daughter
Subtitle: A Mystery
Author: Tamar Myers
Narrator: Molly Elston
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-28-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Tamar Myers returns to Africa in The Headhunters Daughter, the second audiobook in her wonderful mystery series set in the Belgian Congo in the mid-twentieth century - a riveting and atmospheric follow-up to The Witchdoctors Wife.
Raised in the Congo herself, the child of missionaries, Myers uses her intimate knowledge of the people, the culture, and the landscape to add richness to this stunning story of an abandoned infant raised by a tribe of headhunters - a masterful mystery that fans of Alexander McCall Smith and The #1 Ladies Detective Agency will adore.
Members Reviews:
A Poor Follow-up
I read both "The Witch Doctor's Wife" (WIFE) and "The Headhunter's Daughter" (DAUGHTER) this week while on vacation. The former was left by a previous tenant of the condo I'm staying at, and was a serendipitous find. I thoroughly enjoyed how the portrait of the Belgian Congo was drawn alongside the main plot. I also enjoyed the African factoids at the beginning of each chapter. As a result I eagerly downloaded the Kindle version of DAUGHTER. Unfortunately, DAUGHTER appears to be a sequel in search of a story.
Where WIFE flowed seamlessly between details of colonial Africa and the story DAUGHTER is disjointed and many plot elements seemed contrived simply for the sake of highlighting an interesting historical or cultural fact. Several of the characters seemed to have distinct personality changes in the second book, e.g. the OP. And I'm pretty sure there are inconsistencies between the two books (I have no desire to recreate the timelines in detail). Even glossing over the details the plot is much flimsier and doesn't really build to an interesting conclusion. Finally, as mentioned earlier, I really enjoyed the factoids at the beginning of each chapter in WIFE, and these were not included in DAUGHTER (at least in the Kindle version).
Although I feel this book was half-baked at best, there is still a fair amount of interesting details about colonial Africa. If you're intrigued by the premise and haven't read WIFE, I would start there. If you really liked WIFE, there's a good chance you'll at least enjoy this book -- just don't read them back to back.
Fun characters
This book pales in comparison to the Witch Doctors Wife. However, the characters are still fun and you just never know what they will say. It ended without a real conclusion as well. I really only read it so I could get more from the characters of the first book but this one left me a little flat.
Two Stars
Didn't care for this novel.
Enjoyable but not as good as others in this series
This book is thoroughly enjoyable and deserves 5 stars for the sheer pleasure of reading it but I'm giving it 4 stars because I found the multiple story lines to be too busy and tangled. I've read previous books in the series and knew and liked the characters in each of the different story lines, but I found this book to be more scattered than the others in the series.
Wonderful book. The real Tamar Myers.
Interesting plot line, good character development, fabulous setting, and authentic. It is hard to believe the skilled author of these riveting Belgian Congo stories is the same writer of the Magdalena Yoder mush.