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Title: Overwritten & pretentious
Review: I liked his first book and thought I'd look him up and see what else he'd written, but this book needs serious help. Conversations that are too pretentious and not related to real people, parts that beg for a good editor to cut them down, and overall just a mediocre story. A writer with potential, but I'm disappointed to see the direction he's gone in without an apparent guiding editorial hand.
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