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Title: Suffers from a bad case of middle-book-itis.
Review: As is usually the case in the middle book of a trilogy, this book suffers badly from being a story fragment with neither beginning nor ending; at least in the first book of a series, we get a beginning, and in the last book, we get a bit of closure. In the middle book, we get nothing but ongoing angst with no intro or settlement. This book is a good example of why serializations of more than two books are unsatisfactory; the series as a whole continues to be of moderate interest, but this book by itself is pretty worthless. Necessary if you're to get from book one to book three, but definitely not worth reading on its own merits.
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