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Review title: lack of coherent character development
Product review: The writing is serviceable, but the book is either poorly edited (over edited?) or it was worked on and then set aside over a great deal of time. I think the author tries and fails to make us care about a variety of characters (a la Russo-Empire Falls) all of whom lack cohesion from chapter to chapter. Some characters are developed in one chapter, then forgotten about throughout the rest of the book. Different plotlines/character grids are developed and then abruptly dropped, and the main characters seem to enjoy mulitple personalities from chapter to chapter. Again, this seems to be an attempt to mimic the stylings of Russo, but in the case of this book, it is unsuccessful. All this book served to do for me was wish for a new Richard Russo book to read, something satisfying and complete. This book, while well versed perhaps, was neither satisfying nor complete.
