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Title: Sophomore Jinx
Review: Talk about a Sophomore Jinx! After what appeared to be a brilliant start with her first novel, The Big Bachi, Naomi Hirahara serves up this stinker. I don't know who should be more embarrassed: her, for writing it, or me, for previously recommending her.Some of the problems: a preposterous plot, unlikely clues, characters you don't care about (especially Mas' daughter, who seems anything but the promised Gasa-Gasa), gratuitous Japanese language insertions, unconvincing dialect, extended and tedious descriptions of the mundane (she persists in treating the subway as an exotic "underground train" and describing in depth how to ride it), and explaining the simplest things as if writing for a 12 year old.Stick to her first book.
