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Title: A bloated book with unlikeable characters
Review: I read this because my book club picked it. It was torture. Where was the editor? There isn't a single character I cared about and the "mystery" was utterly contrived.Carter's literary style was terrible. Perhaps if it would have been written in the third person it may have worked better. He constantly attributed thoughts and motives to people as if he were a third person narrator instead of a person witnessing an act, e.g. a third person narration can say, "He didn't like the gift because it reminded him of his father," but a first person narrator can't know that unless told directly. That is the point--you look at events through a filter.I really disliked this book. I could go on and on and on and on and on and on and... until I fill 650+ pages like Carter did but I won't.
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