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Review title: What did I miss?
Product review: I liked this novel a great deal at the beginning - interesting premise and well-drawn characterizations through the eyes of the narrator. By the middle of this book, I was starting to daydream through the same repetitive passages that I had already read and by the end I was skimming to finish it. However, I found at the end that I had not been patient enough -the pivotal conclusion was finished in several "meaty" pages. I am left wondering if the author got a call from the publisher asking for a quick end, so Denise Mina finished it immediately. By then, I think we had all tired of the seemingly endless navel gazing and preening self-importance of the main character, so perhaps it's just as well that it ended when and how it did. In my opinion, this book is not a "keeper."
