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Review title: Weak attempt
Product review: This novel started out well, but halfway through degenerated into cheap romance, cliched writing, and a plotline straight out of a soap opera. I found myself unable to care about any of the characters or what happened to them. Steel insisted on telling us, rather than showing, the important details, a device which greatly weakens any writing.
