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Title: The Ruins
Review: Basic premise of book is a bit unbelievable, just shy of ridiculous. Character development was good and it was a page turner; however, had the evil element of the book been something believable, such as a government agency conducting testing with dangerous chemicals, it would have been a much, much better read. Scott Smith's previous book, A Simple Plan, was terrific, as I could envision myself acting as any one of the main characters acted. In The Ruins, however, Scott Smith asks us to believe in the unbelievable. Perhaps Sci-Fi readers would enjoy The Ruins.
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