Title: disappointing and un-subtle
Product review: I approached this book with high hopes, as all the reviews have seemed to indicate that the book would be fascinating. The themes and the narrative focus are good ones, and the bare bones of the story could make for a wonderful novel. But this ain't it. Cooley will learn, one hopes, that it's not such a great idea to have characters launch into soliloquies of self explanation, over and over, as a way to advance the story. It's surprisingly unpolished, for all its good intentions, and my disappointment is as much with all the un-critical critics as it is with Cooley.
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