Title: it takes precious little
Product review: it seems, to get a book published these days. My guess is that 50% of the people who purchased this book did so because of the partly exposed boob on the cover. I know that there are books that are meant to be taken to the beach or the mountains for summer vacation and then left at the rental house because to bring it home would mean more weight in the car and lower gas mileage. But if the reader struggles to get through the first 30 pages of truly uninspired writing more than once, something is seriously wrong. At least if Ms. Zeidner could write, it might redeem the ridiculous "plot" line. Even the sex, which presumably enticed a number of people to buy the book is unexciting. The dust jacket says that the author is a professor of English at a respected university; one can only hope that she is a much better teacher than she is a writer.
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