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Title: good writer; bad book
Review: What a disappointment. This novel apparently couldn't care less about plot or character consistency. If you insist on buying this book, skip the entire Seattle episode because it has nothing to do with anything else. In fact, read the first two or three chapters and the last one and save an extraordinary amount of time (in others words, don't spend more than twenty minutes on it).I didn't read the first novel and, sorry, I shouldn't have to. It's insulting to a reader to just throw in some characters from a previous novel for no reason other than to make it appear you're writing a grand multi-book epic. Three-quarters of the way through the novel, the point of view shifts to second person several times (that's so eighties)...Jefferson has good writing skills. She needs to learn how to apply them to the novel form. This book reads like a first draft that never got revised. I stayed with it because it was on recommend and I kept thinking it would actually get better. Alas, no.
