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Review title: Surprise ending, but is it worth the effort?
Product review: Although it's nice to read a book in which religious people are not depicted as blithering idiots, 'Lost Boys' is not a particularly good book, which is surprising because Card is such a talented writer. I liked the style of having each chapter beginning with the same two words, so each chapter was almost like a mini-story. However, it is far too long for the plot, and I disliked the many dead-end story lines, such as Stevie's evil teacher and Step's dead-end job. Many of the characters simply aren't realistic, and I initially found it difficult to care about many of them. Step's whining about having to work for someone else was particularly annoying. The end arrives abruptly, or rather, the only sense of impending climax is knowing the book ends in less than 30 pages so something has to happen.
