I enjoy the author's other work, so I was excited to read his first book. I was surprised to find it slow and boring.A few years back, Christopher Dusk moved from Chicago to a little town named Low Ferry. He sets himself up with a bookshop and settles down to a quiet life. Then a shy young man named Lucas turns up, asking for a special book about masks--and nothing happens. Nothing ever, ever happens. The entire book is basically Christopher walking into the diner, everyone greets him, walking back to the bookshop, where all the kids think he's so worldly, walking over to Lucas's, where sometimes he'll talk to him for a few minutes and sometimes he won't. There's no romance, there's no excitement, there's no character growth. Just a boring young man being helpful and wise and right for an entire novel.