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Review title: Awful Mess in Desperate Need of Editing
Product review: An interesting concept that might have held up for a short story, but was dreadful as a novel. Repeatedly out of control side tracks into exposition that is not terribly important. Slowly the pieces fit together around page 500. If I had not been on vacation, I would have given up on it long before. I now regret wasting the time I did spend on it. I want those hours back. I also want the editor who greenlighted this mess fired. This desperately needs editing down to 250pp. The author's ego (and lack of restraint by editors) left the barn long ago. Would that I could select half a star for this one.
