Title: Well-paced and exciting, but character development falls flat.
Product review: I've read _Election_, and I went into this book hoping for more of the same--developed, interesting characters and a plot that kept me guessing. Unfortunately, Tom Perrotta has apparently become the next incarnation of Dean Koontz, complete with the action-packed unrealistic ending and the flat-as-a-pancake Evil Guy. People just don't behave the way that the characters do in this novel, especially at the end.I enjoyed the writing--on the whole, Perrotta is a very talented author and deserves to do well. I think, though, that he can do much better than this book. When I finished reading the novel, I actually threw it away because I was so frustrated with the shallow character development and the typical deus ex machina ending (in this case, the "god" was somehow in the characters' heads, making them behave in ways completely unlike the people who they were supposed to be). I've never thrown a book away before.But this one deserved it.
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