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Title: Disappointed and overwhelmed
Review: I like "airplane" books, but I could have flown around the world and not have finished this one. It was too long, it had too many characters, and it took on too many issues. I know the sequels are here, but I wasn't left with the burning desire to order them. The characters were unbelievable, both too trite and too inconsistent. The goals of the principal, a poor little rich girl with a vapid, yet all controlling mother, were supposed to save the world if achieved. The premises were ok for sci-fi, but they didn't go anywhere. Unfortunately, the inclusion of critical events taking place on both Yugoslavian battlefields and the Mir spacecraft turned out to be rather silly in the light of recent real events in both of those locales. I was totally turned off by the inner-city episodes. They sounded more like an apology than a literary creation of credible human drama. I'll look elsewhere for my reading entertainment.
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