Title: Lack of character development dulled the story
Review: The Rug Merchant is not a book that draws the reader in. There are only a handful of characters in the book that have any dialogue exchange at all. The nineteen year old character Stella's dialogue was distractingly contrived in several places. Other than Ushman, the few characters who are in the book are boringly undeveloped and lacking in complexity. Since the characters were so simplified, I was unable to take an interest in them individually and thus had a hard time plodding on to the end of the book (but I did finish it, just to get it over with).The story had potential to be a good read, but I don't think the author was up to the task of turning a decent short story into a compelling novel.
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