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Review title: Too much craft hitched to too small a purpose
Product review: A trade press review said "Powerfully told, with room for an expansion of the story.""Room for expansion" is a rather interesting euphemism for a complete failure to deliver on the tacit contract between reader and writer. In exchange for the reader's money, time, and attention, the writer creates and develops issues to hold that attention, then answers the questions and resolves the major issues at the end.Gibson created a handful of intriguing dilemmas. Dramatic conflicts fascinating enough to keep a reader going through less than stellar prose. From time to time, you wonder if it's worth the effort to keep on reading, but the hooks have you hooked.Last sentance -- " They waited there, suspended between Heaven and Earth" -- flips off the long-suffering reader by resolving / explaining -- nothing.I have not seen this kind of contempt for the consumer since Roman Polanski's brutal hymn to nihilism, "Chinatown."
