Title: A disappointment
Product review: I bought this book hoping to find my voice, hoping for a character to relate to. I didn't find either.The prose is painfully dull. "Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it ... " the back cover reads. That phrase might as well have come directly from the text, for all the action it portrays.Show, don't tell. Is that so hard to do? It's writer's rule no. 1, and usually a manuscript won't make it out of an editor's office still in one piece if that rule is not scrictly adhered to.I have to give a little credit, though. I was surprised by the end of the book when I felt a sudden bout of sympathy during its climax. I don't know how he did it, but somehow the author made me care without actually making me care.But God, was this book a bore.
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