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Title: Clever...too clever!
Review: SPLENDOR IN THE GLASS is a clever book. In fact, its greatest problem is that it's too clever.Its protagonist is too cutesy, the protagnist's snap responses are too quick and too hokey. This is a shame, because author Tamar Myers obviously is a gifted writer of mysteries.This story is complicated and interesting: Myers' details about Charleston, where the tale is set, and about collectible crystal and antique shops, all seem accurate and these really are quite interesting. Her ear for dialogue, even when that dialogue is strained, is excellent.Thus, the overly cute tone bogs down what actually is a very good mystery, rather than enhancing it, as had to have been Ms. Myers' intent. SPLENDOR IN THE GLASS--even the name is cutesy--is a good book. Yet this novel misses being great, and SPLENDOR did have the potential to be more than it was.
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