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Review title: I thought this book was very overrated.
Product review: The copy I have lists excerpts from apparently rave reviews. I was not that impressed. The book isn't terrible-the main character is rather interesting and the pacing isn't too bad but there were several flaws that kept me from really enjoying the book.The subplot featuring the presidential campaign was not convincing at all.Aside from Pennington, the characters were not very well-developed in my opinion.I think writers like Thomas H. Cook handle this type of material (sex and violence lurking in small towns, the downfall of high school heroes and protagonists with a troubled past) much better.I recently read Nancy Pickard's book about a beautiful dark-haired young woman with a complicated sexual history who is loved unrequitedly by a local law enforcement officer and is found naked and dead in a field (The Virgin of Small Plains) and I liked it a lot better.
