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Title: A Poor Follow-Up to "Absolute Power"
Review: David Baldacci showed he had a knack for characters and plotting in "Absolute Power." In "Total Control" (and his subsequent novels), he loses that knack. This book starts off very slow as he throws all of his character detail into the first few pages. He also has a very bad habit of telegraphing things that will happen later on in the story, so when it does appear the reader is neither surprised nor riveted. I won't bother writing a review for "The Winner" and his subsequent books; they are all the same. If you suffer from insomnia, read the first few chapters of his post-"Absolute Power" works; they'll put you to sleep in no time.
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