A Rare Find | Book Review

Two feuding neighbors team up for a treasure hunt that will change their lives

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A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell
368 pages | Published by Berkley

The Set Up: Elfreda is determined to become a recognized archeologist, and has finally found an artifact that can make that happen. But her discovery is accidentally lost, thanks to her neighbor, Georgie. The two realize that finding treasure would benefit them both in different ways, and so they team up to try and find what Elfreda is sure is buried somewhere on their lands.

This was a nice quick read, but ultimately it didn’t pull me in like I would have wanted.

There was some fantastic queer representation in this book, which I really loved. It was cool to see how someone like Georgie would have navigated the world with their identity in this time period. I loved the conversation around pronouns that they had, and about how to some they may not seem important, but how much they can affect a person.

“I suppose you could say I’m staying for everything. Or that you’re everything.”

The treasure hunt aspect of the story was a fun inclusion, and I thought it was well paced, but what I was missing the most was tension. I never fully felt that pull between the two main characters, so overall the book fell a bit flat for me.

Thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for the advanced eBook!