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Review title: Hasn't really earned its praise
Product review: This little book was amusing at first. It boasts a lot of creative and interesting tidbits, but ultimately fails to do anything but titilate readers with flashy narrative devices. I've read this book twice, and I have to say that, having done so, Fforde's debut novel has even less to recommend it than I originally thought. Most of the characters have quizzical, if not nonexistent, motivations and a good portion of the book involves tangents that lead nowhere or fall flat. He doesn't even do anything interesting with the characters from 'Jane Eyre.' All in all, the book is melodramatic, confounding and, above all, cynical, relying as it does on bells and whistles sure to draw the attention of readers (and especially reviewers) hungry for anything remotely clever in concept. True, there are some amusing parts, and the prose is competent, but there's no accounting for the sensation this book was.
