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Review title: painfully obvious
Product review: I found this novel nothing short of dreadful. Despite exotic trappings and labored arcane rigamarole, the characters are cardboard creations pushed through a plot that is totally transparent from square one. Even in his better efforts Zimler's style tends to cloy because of his evident belief that his work is deeply meaningful and must therefore be difficult to grasp, and as a result he constantly makes the obvious even more painfully so with authorial nudges in the ribs. He has hit rock bottom here.
