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Title: Lacked impetus
Review: The story began promisingly enough, but was quickly bogged down by pages of historical information spouted by the main characters via completely unbelievable speechifying, or was worked into the text through the device of a character's reading. This had the effect of bringing what little action there was to a grinding halt.Much of the information was only tangentially relevant to the story; for example, the main character sits his young protege down and tells him all about the Molly Maguires - thirteen pages of infodump. Mr. Williams should have written an anecdotal history of coal mining and not bothered with writing a novel.
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