Title: Good ideas, bad writing
Product review: The Hickory Staff is a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, the basic ideas are pretty good. I like the storyline, overall. However, it's full of the most awful cliches and lazy writing imaginable. Imagine a movie adaption of The Loard of the Rings, but this time directed by John Woo and starring Vin Diesel and you'll be just touching the edges of how cheesy this book gets.I did a search on Amazon for the authors and one of them seems to be a true crime writer, which would explain the penchant for being constantly overly-melodramatic. (Imagine a Steven King story as told by a 13-year old drama queen.)The characters are paper-thin. There is no real depth to them and their emotions and reactions are canned responses with all the sophistication of a beer commerical.This book gets two stars for the ideas and nothing at all for the story-telling itself.
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