Title: Yawn ...
Review: With all of the hundreds and hundreds of rave reviews, it took awhile for me to figure out just what it was about this book that rubbed me the wrong way, then it hit me: every few pages (sometimes several times on the same page) it was like starting a new short story. Now, I do read short story collections, but for me they miss that build that you only get from a long novel. In this book, it's like starting over hundreds of times, kind of like Groundhog day, only that was more interesting. And if the cohesive whole of the story would have been enhanced by this gimmick, I would have been happy with it, but it wasn't. It was just too disjointed. And I can't believe that a first time author was allowed to ramble on, giving page after page of detail that did not further the story in any way, shape or form. Are we back to the days of authors getting paid by the word?
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