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Title: Poorly written, poorly plotted, poorly executed
Review: The premise of this book sounds great - tourists off the beaten track in Mexico and "strange things start to happen" - but this book could be so much more. In fact ANYTHING more would be more than what is delivered. The only thing more shocking than this trivial bit of fluff making the "Best Books of the Last 25 Years List" is that it was made into a movie. My 20-year-old-daughter walked out of the movie out of sheer boredom. That is how I felt reading the book. I kept thinking that there had to be a twist to it, but sadly no. This book is like a short walk down a dark, weedy alley. It might look like there is the possibility of adventure and intrigue, but when you reach the end - well, there you are, at the end of a dark weedy alley with no story to tell.
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