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Title: I really wanted to enjoy it!
Review: I love Sara Paretsky's writing but this one has me stumped. Her characters, usually pretty well developed, are so one-dimensional that I didn't feel sympathy for any of them and that is the "kiss of death" for me as a reader. I want to cheer for someone or at least feel interested in their fate. With these folks I would have been unmoved if they'd all been chucked over a cliff. Plus there were more than a few that I wanted to slap around and and say, "grow up!" So, perhaps I do not understand what Paretsky was trying to accomplish, but for me the book was tedious and unsatisfying.
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