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Title: Overrated
Review: One-dimensional characters, needlessly convoluted plot, and repetitive language (how many times does the word "smut" appear in this book?) -- one of the worst books I've read in a while. For a book ostensibly about Los Angeles, there is little sense of place. It could have taken place anywhere. Why is the mastermind behind the criminal scheme revealed in the prologue, thereby ending all suspense? Why is so much of the book just dull exposition? Why are the action scenes so poorly written that you can't visualize what is going on? And the depiction of African-Americans is flat-out racist.
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