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Review title: Not Very Lively, Especially for a Thriller
Product review: This book should be riveting, based on its premise. Instead, it is clunky and trite. The story isn't so much a reversal of a common theme as a parading of all the usual cliches, done in a slightly different manner. The characters are almost all unappealing or uninteresting, and Mary should have been drawn better. The book is fairly easy to read, but the author's skill is merely adequate, not up to the level of most thriller-writers, let alone Michael Connelly. Read The Poet if you want a story of psychological suspense. Most authors do it better than Sterling, so wait for him to develop into a writer before you spend money on one of his books.
