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Wow! 960 pages! This one is longer than Ink Black Heart. Good thing I'm ahead on my reading challenge 'cause this one is gonna take a while.

Had to do some math to determine how many pages I have actually read. I am finding this book-within-a-book structure annoying. Only determination to finish prevents me from tossing this one into the reject pile.

Finished book 1 - give it 3+ stars for originality.

Started book 2 - lost interest; may return later.

P. 24 - "She might have complained, though, because the cashier tried to stack the returned coins on top of the slippery receipt rather than handing over the coins first. They slid off and fell to the floor.
"Sorry. That happens all the time," the girl says.
"So why do you keep doing it?" Sigrid asks.
"What?"

I think I might be part Norwegian.

Stalled out on this one. No action, just a droning storytelling by a wannabe film maker. The story of the Goldens is, in itself, interesting, just told in a not-particularly-engaging style.

So far the only idiot is the one who keeps reading this book!

Predictible. Too much bodice ripper. Why is it that these dual-authored books are only half as good as each of the authors' separate writings? I have been ignoring the dual-authored books, but didn't notice Roy Johansen's name on the bottom of the cover on this one.

Can I finish this? Yawn. Well, it's raining and I might be bored enough to carry on.

. . . "'What you do next is just yes or no.' She was very deep, his wife. So deep that she could render matters of philosophy into binary questions." --p.45

Hooray for interlibrary loan!

p.79 - "Lying in bed this morning, I had set the bar laughably low: look people in the eye, get dressed, smile! It should have been a Sunday drive. Then that prankster Reality appeared in the pickup truck ahead of me and started tossing watermelons out the back. And it wasn't even one o'clock!"