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Title: Please do not bother
Review: I, like many people, was a big fan of Scott Smith's book, A Simple Plan. What set it apart from others in the genre was a well thought out plot with twists and turns you did not see coming. Unfortunately the same is not true of The Ruins. As engrossing as A Simple Plan's plot was, this one is just as flat out boring. I saw the end coming a third into the book but kept kidding myself that because it was Scott Smith something big would happen. Needless to say - it never did. I would rank this as mediocre in the cheap horror genre at best. I have not been this disappointed in a novel in several years. I hope Smith's next novel is better than this but am not sure I would read it to find out.
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