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Review title: Mediocre & often annoying
Product review: After all the advance hype, I expected this book to be much better than it is. The three main characters are irritating and hard to like. The author apparently couldn't decide whether to make them warmly sympathetic or coldly off-putting and ended up trying to give both qualities to all three, with the result that their behavior is sometimes jarringly inconsistent. The writing is pedestrian and often clumsy. (Example: Slaughter uses the word "mumbled" so many times -- often more than once on a single page -- that it became funny after a while, and the image of all these people walking around mumbling constantly was very distracting.) Long stretches of the book are flat and boring. All in all, a disappointment.
