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Review title: Held hostage by bad book
Product review: The premise of this book is a good one: a group of strangers taken hostage by terrorists. Unfortunately, reading this book is like biting into a beautifully decorated cake, only to find that it is dry and stale. There is minimum chracter development, and as a result I found myself not caring about any of the chracters. (Everyone in the book seems to be obessed with the opera singer, but it is hard to understand why.) In the beginning of the book there is tension between the hostages and terrorists, but the author lets the flame die out rather quickly, and in the end it seem as though she is writing about people being at "summer camp". The book never explores how the situation is affecting the hostages psychologically. The ending of the book is unexpected, and somewhat unbelievable. Very disappointed in this book, a slow read that never lives up to its potential.
