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Title: Tries hard, falls flat
Review: Darcey Steinke certainly deserves an A for effort. She's nailed the plot elements necessary to be hailed as a great dark artist in this end of the age - child abuse, dead moms and absent dads, detached sexy teenage girls, philosophical/religious critique of the cult of the suburbs... I have nothing against these elements in and of themselves, although some of them are starting to be overdone.Unfortunately, her style combines Anne Rice's obsessive-compulsive love of irrelevant detail, the insistant grimyness of a latter-day rock star, and a Joyce-esque refusal to clearly distinguish thought from actuality, while lacking the redeeming gifts of any of the above-mentioned artists.Darcey Steinke will probably write something good someday, probably a short story. Keep your eye out for that. Don't bother with this.
