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Review title: Difficult to follow plot, confusing writing style
Product review: I wish I had better things to say about this book, but I have to agree with the reviewer who said that she wished she hadn't spent so much time reading it. The plot is predictable but basing it on chess could have been clever - except that it comes off as contrived. The writer peppers the pages with references to marginally interesting trivia, such as the name of top-end sherry or the makings of a dinner full of Jewish delicacies, but ultimately the storyline depends too much on historical "shockers", many of which have been used in other, better-known books and movies. I still would have plowed through except for the writer's tendency to write in a way that, I imagine, makes sense to the author but to few readers. For example, I theoretically understand what she means when she writes of one character not to be "confused by reason or logic", but this isn't the kind of book where I want to spend time puzzling over why that phrase is included!
