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Title: Character Development Good - Plot dwindles
Review: I love Mercedes Lackey and can't wait to read everything she writes, but this story lacked substance. I thought the characters were well developed, but the whole premise of the story never added up to me. I felt there were many issues never resolved in the book: why Arachnia was banished from her family - marrying someone they didn't like never made sense and the reason they despised him was never revealed; why her son Reggie put up with her, his role was marginal at best; why she didn't just kill Marina instead of putting her under a spell; why Marina tunred into a materialist after being raised by artists was kind of odd and why, after only a brief relationship did she realize she was in love with the doctor. And it really bothered me that they didn't follow up and destroy the satanic room beneath the pottery. There were too many loose ends to make this book fulfilling for me.
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