Title: Close but not quite
Review: I couldn't finish this book. It suffers from a common device in books these days, having two intertwined stories, and alternating between the plots ever other chapter, creating a false sense of suspense and forcing the reader to read on. The problem is, only one of the plots is interesting. If the author had stuck with the twisted underground world of power, sex and death he created in the one plot (which had some potential), and avoided the other boring (just filler for a short story?) storyline, he might have written a good book. But as it stands now, plodding through the secondary story line to get to the "good" parts was just too much for me.
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