Title: Disappointing
Product review: I must agree with a number of other reviewers here who have criticised this book for being schizophrenic... it doesn't really know if it's a literary thriller or a coming of age story, and suffers for the confusion. The biggest problem is that the coming-of-age story is banal in the extreme: poorly written and tedious. The literary thriller part is reasonably intriguing but you really have to slog through a lot of other meaninglessness to enjoy it. In fact, I skipped entire sections towards the end and didn't miss anything at all. The fact that the authors are young and intelligent really shows: the writing is by turns erudite (the thriller parts) and sophmoric (the personal parts). Overall I would not recommend this book; I desperately wanted to enjoy it but was hugely disappointed. By the way, I think this book merits 2 stars; I gave it 1 to bring the overall average more in line with what I think it deserves.
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