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Review title: What the hell was that?
Product review: This book was bad. REAL bad, even for a Ravenloft novel. The "I, Strahd" novels were interesting, unique and full of intrigue: what a Ravenloft novel should be at it's best. Lowder's grip of English is tenuous in that he offers no grace or emotion in his writing. The book is desert dry and, with a few modifications, would make a perfect book for pre-teens. How the hell did Lowder get this freakin' job? Characters are underdeveloped and flat, no suspense is ever developed, it isn't "Gothic" in the least, and no interest can ever be created in the lifeless pit dug where imagintion should be. Every time I finished reading a chapter I'd think: "You got to be friggin' joking." LOWDER CAN'T WRITE NOVELS. Period. Sorry James. Don't make this your day job.
