Title: Just awful!
Review: What were those other reviewers thinking??? Great idea, horrific execution. The characters are ridiculously 2-dimensional, without a genuine characteristic among them (a HIV-infected, former porn star? Give me a break!!) The writing is an embarassment -- when the author is not using every cliche known to man he's ridiculously mixing his metaphors. And he has taken every overused plot devise he could possibly think of -- AIDS, murder, competition between brothers -- and thrown them all together as if this were some kind of literary blender.There's nothing I like more than historical fiction. But a work as inept as this can't even be enjoyed for its entertainment value. Skip it, skip it skip it!!
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