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Title: Oh, for the love of <deleted>
Review: Reading this book was an act of faith on my part. That faith was very poorly placed. First, you get maybe 300 pages of actual plot and current-day character development. Then (@!*%#), you are subjected to another 300+ pages of a historical narrative that *never seems to end.* When the story resumes, you are dragged along as characters act in a "most unseemly" way. Finally, the ending is the worst I have ever seen in a book this long. After having read (and suffered) so long, to make the ending essentially a "stay-tuned-for-our-next-book" finish is like pouring acid in the already festering reading wounds of those who somehow managed to make it that far to the end of the book. Ann Rice? Never again.
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