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Review title: This should be so much better...
Product review: Well, why not exploit Harvard (or any other IVY League institution) if you went there? The problem with this book is it sounds like the energy must have gone into the pitch (obviously, the author made a few connections as a consultant to entertainment companies) rather than the content. Hopefully, sales will sustain Ms. Thomas' series long enough for her to grow into the craft. But this book is a clunker--the dialogue, structure, stereotyped characters, and narrative cliches all detract so much from the predictable plot, it was impossible to enjoy the book or ever forget you were reading an author who reminds you twice--on the back of the paperback and inside the cover--that she graduated Phi Beta Kappa etc, etc from Harvard.
