Title: Lets down the imprint
Product review: I'm a great fan of the Hard Case Crime imprint - both reprinted classics like Donald Westlake's "361" and new novels in the hardboiled style, like Richard Aleas' "Little Girl Lost" and Max Phillips' "Fade to Blonde." Hard Case Crime has published some of the best novels I've read in any genre.Sadly, "Branded Woman" really lets down the team. The heroine is artificial and unsympathetic, the side characters boring, and the writing itself stilted. My recommendation: choose another book from this imprint.
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