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Title: Another Leisure dud
Review: From where I stand, it seems that Leisure knows which wonderful authors to publish so long as those authors have a long-running career. But if you see a first novel coming out from the Leisure horror line, you can pretty much forget about it.Such is the case with Teri Jacobs' novel The Void. This is a weak effort where the author strives like a swimmer caught in the ocean current to be "literary." She flounders and splashes and flails throughout her narrative, but never once achieves a strong, comfortable voice that can draw the reader in. Instead, we get writing that is filled with such purple prose that any editor with an ounce of shame would have struck out.I don't know who does the acquisitions at the Leisure Books horror department but he should fire his first readers or spend more time on his slush pile. Too many awful first novels are finding their way into print there.
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