Title: Passion? Yes... Character development? No.
Product review: I started reading this book with enthusiasm. I was looking for a good summer read, an escape, something to dive into at the end of a long day at work. At first, it seemed that this would be just the ticket: colorful characters, interesting culture, history, and a novel premise... But it never got off the ground. I found myself turning pages just to try to get through them.I found the characters to have little depth and no matter how hard I tried, I found myself unable to empathize with them or care about what they were doing. The dialog is contrived. The stories--and there are lots of them--are diatribes. Two-dimensional characters + long, boring stories = an uninteresting book.I am a bit surprised by all the praise this book has received. Seems too congradulatory for something so unimpressive.
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