Title: Simply Awful
Product review: Craig Holden has done some very good writing in his career, but this book can't be included in that statement. I loved his book Four Corners of Night so I thought I'd give this one a try, but I put it down after slogging through the first 200 pages. The plot seemed mildly interesting, but the characters are so one-dimensional and shallow that I didn't care one bit about anything that happened to them. They were all boring, poorly-created cliches. The writing in this book was also terrible. Holden's prose in Four Corners of Night was some of the best I've seen in years, so he's obviously learned a lot about his craft, but this novel reads like a high school kid's attempt at writing a "cool" book. Don't waste your time on this one.
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