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Title: Business or pleasure?
Review: Apparently, Carter has never heard the writerly dictum to 'show don't tell'. His characters are introduced with long wordy descriptions that reveal nothing. This discursiveness extents to every part of the writing, not just character creation. His dialogue is flat. His prose is flat. An MFA program would do him wonders. There's a good plot in there, but the book is a stylistic snooze that makes it hard to plod through.
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