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Review title: Soft-boiled and soporific
Product review: What a disappointment! I'd read such raves about Ellin and The Eighth Circle in particular. But, I had to force myself to finish it. I found the writing, plot, characterisations and especially the dialogue tame, lame, insipid, unconvincing, uninvolving...you get the idea. Precious. Nice, even. I've read many mysteries and hard boiled detective novels. This was one of the worst. ZZZZzzzzzzz
