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Review title: Good story, but hard to find it
Product review: This author was recommended by someone who reads Robert Jordan. It was said to be similar in style. Nothing could be further from the truth. While Keyes has a good story, it has so much obscure language, irrelevant passages, etc., that it reads much like a first draft. If he had edited it better, cut out much of the waste and added more flowing description, instead of the choppy rough way in which it was written, it would have been tolerable, maybe even good. As an English professor, I read a montage of books from a plethora of authors and this is the first book in a long time I had trouble getting through, not because it was difficult to understand, but because of the poor editing, it was pretty boring. The only redeeming quality of this book is that Keyes does create a realistic, although somewhat mundane, fantasy world. I would advise readers to choose a different book.
