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Title: I wanted to give it more stars
Review: I really wanted to award Martin Schenk more than two stars for this novel. It started off so promising. I actually read the entire first half in one night, just because I couldn't put it down. Really great characters (even though they were a bit stereotypical) were engaged in an original and believeable tragedy of greed and media hype. Then...I started the last half. It was so predictable, and by the time I was nearing the end, I was actually skipping paragraphs at a time just because the writing was so overdramatic and absurd, I couldn't wait to finish. The entire "revenge of the roots" storyline almost made me laugh out loud. Martin Schenk could have done SO much more with this novel. He definitely has talent, as was apparent in the first half. I just wish he would have used his talent in the second half.
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