Title: Hoping Against Hope
Review: And that's the summation of this book. I should start off by saying that truthfully I did really want to like this book. I'm not dogging on it just for the sake of ruffling a few feathers. It has an incredible concept and the plot is so inspired, as are the characters.However (and this is a big however) I find Maguire's writing completely lackluster. It's not sparse in some styleistic way, nor blunt in any sort of impacting way. It's just blah. And the times that he does try to put a little more 'oomph' into the writing at emotional and pivotal moments, it is just so clunky and stiff.As a result I really didn't care that much about the characers, and as inspired the plot points, I wasn't on the edge of my seat trying to find out what was next.I understand that there were some important themes to get across, I mean alienation, the question of predestination and all that which Maguire deals with in a pretty deft manner.But the writing!
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