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Title: Unrealized potential
Review: This book is derived from a short story, with the same title, in "Women at War". There is plenty of material, but the novel is a major disappointment. Perhaps the assorted myths, legends, and songs sprinkled in with the story inspire false hopes. Children seem to regress as they grow up, travel times are out of alignment with distances, the war sequence is as precise as a fumbled handoff, and the finish goes splat like a bowl of macaroni salad dropped from the top of the Sears tower.
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