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Title: Poor Characterization, Boneheaded Thriller
Review: The Tenth Justice wasn't a bad book, so I was excited to get The First Counsel. Here Meltzer gives us a female character who is repugnant and creepy, yet he insists that she is "complex" (about 5 times) and extremely appealing. And our main character is supposed to be brilliant, but he's fairly imbecilic sometimes. Metzler doesn't understand that the characters have to act smart or appealing, not merely be described as such. Meltzer does know enough to keep his novel fast paced, but lordy! it's cluttered with dead ends and false leads. He does not create and maintain suspense; instead he throws in as many ingredients as he can find. It's a mess. He attempts to cook everything together in the last dozen pages, but all we end up with is a mess in the kitchen and no edibles.
