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Title: Not so mellow mellow-drama.
Review: If Iles ever learns how to write, he's going to be dangerous.Because, you see, Mr. Iles is a phenomenal story-teller. (Maybe he'd be better at screenplays).Even the main character is interesting, and we're interested in finding out how things turn out.What gets difficult is Iles' incessant over-writing; gates that open like the hands of god and cataclysmic metaphors every sixth paragraph.This novel sports something I laughed out loud while reading: Our heroin, checking her phone messages. While floating down the Mississippi River, on a log, in a rainstorm as she bleeds profusely from a wound in her leg, being pursued by someone trying to kill her. Truly ridiculous.This is my second Iles novel, and I'm rather afraid there will be a third. He's just too intruiging, though he may be the worst wordsmith ever.
