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Title: Don't waste your money--or yout time
Review: I loved C.S. Friedman's other two sci-fi books and have reread them both numerous times, but The Madness Season is a real mess. Her characters are repellent, her plotting labored and turbid, and her continual lapsing into hackneyed rhetoric insupportable. I kept hoping the book would improve--after all, Friedman's work is usually brilliant--but, after slogging my way through 340-odd pages, I gave up. I pitched the book, which I almost never do.Do yourself a favor: give The Madness Season a miss.
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