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Title: A Major Disappointment
Review: The premise sounded good, and it had been recommended by someone who compared "City Infernal" favourably with "Perdido Street Station".However, I found "City Infernal" to be a hastily written novel with poor dialogue, poor characterization, and plot holes galore. It was written in the style of a 1950's pulp book for adolescents, and whenever a character ran into some difficulty, someone would pull a "sprinkle" of some magic dust from a pocket to solve the problem.There was no tension, nothing was scary, and the book just kind of fell into a heap of uninteresting rags before the end.Despite this, and despite an angel being described as looking like Brad Pitt with, like, you know, a really great bod (!!!), I churned my way to the end, hoping that it would get better, even a trifle.Two hours of my life was stolen by this book...
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