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Review title: Not expecting anything left me not expecting anything
Product review: This book has a lot of potential, but I was disappointed overall with the plot and the characters. The descriptions of landscapes made them real and inviting, and the addition of watercolor paintings made it that much more vivid. The offbeat coloquialisms made it interesting, in some repects, but I still think this novel falls short of the people and places described within its pages.The plot seemed dull, and there wasn't any real who-dunit story that weaves a reader into a web. I thought this was more like an episode of "Columbo" where you already knew who did it, and it was just a matter of catching the bad guys. The clues found by the detectives seemed haphazard and that they just happened to bump into things by chance. The dialogue seemed natural for a TV show, but not all bad.All in all, I'd like to see more of McGarrity as he hones his technique, but it's decent for a first try.
