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Title: Bloated Short Story
Review: There's some stuff here that would make Clive Barker ill, but those scenes are few and far between. This book could easily be 150 pages shorter. I kept reading the same scene over and over, without learning anything about the characters as people, and without discovering anything new about their situation. If this book had been, say, 190 pages OR LESS, it would have been much more effective. I saw the ending coming at the half-way point, so, as I read the last page, instead of shock or fear, I simply shrugged, and cast the book aside. Save youself: don't even bother to pick it up.
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