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Review title: A Fantasy
Product review: I never have been able to get into science fiction/fantasy books and this is definitely a novel of intricate fantasy. I would have loved a story about how language connects/separates/hurts/heals us, but that's not what I found here. The characters were completely stock: the struggling, unsure protagonist; the mysterious iconoclastic stranger offering redemption; the ice-queen shrew; the golden-hearted (ex)whore; the tragic, doomed orphan. There was very little that was subtle about this book. Hints that Peter was celestial were very heavy-handed. The dreams that Bill kept having were obvious and seemed like quick and easy ways for Mr. Zimler to make connections and to move the story along. Nothing reminded me remotely of E.M. Forster, the book jacket blurb notwithstanding. Clive Barker, maybe; and like the novels of Clive Barker, I found _Angelic Darkness_ a little too pat and underdeveloped.
