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Title: a HUGE disappointment...
Review: Don't you hate when you become entranced by a novel early on, it sweeps you up in its story and atmosphere for the first half or so, then goes horribly, horribly wrong? That was definitely my experience with this one. The story details a timid librarian (Gerard) delving ever further into his family's past and their secrets. The elements that held me intrigued for the first half (his penpal letters to and from a mysterious girl/woman, Alice, the stories-within-stories) are the same ones that ruined it all for me in the second. It becomes tedious and obvious, not to mention strrrrretched out and over-written. And **OBLIGATORY SPOILER ALERT HERE** the biggest "secret" is essentially spelled out in the title. BOO! About as scary and surprising as my 6-year-old niece jumping out at me with a sheet thrown over her.
