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Review title: Interesting premise, dull story
Product review: The problem with this book isn't with the writing, it's just that the writing is not good enough to sustain a complete lack of tension in the plot. The ultimate fate of all of the characters becomes clear more or less after about 10 pages. And the characters themselves are not very interesting. Flashbacks galore, but very dull. The little blurb at the beginning that explains the basic idea of an intermediate kind of heaven for people who still exist in the memories of the living is about as interesting as it gets. But Brockmeier doesn't do anything with it, I'm afraid.
