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I really don’t know where this person learned to write. It is so overwritten and also completely flat! Every sentence entered by a character is accompanied either by a description of their facial expression when they say it, or something that they are doing. In the two page scene I just read, a guy has picked up and put down a chair SIX TIMES. I am fascinated now.

I just started this book, and it is one of the most astonishingly badly written things I have ever encountered. Not sure if I’m going to be able to get past page 30 despite the fact that I am determined to read all of these Messner career novels. I am unsurprised that this writer seems to have zero other published novels.