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Title: definately had potential, but....
Review: I was so disapointed with this novel. Varni clearly has a love of words and language and there are times when this shines, particulary in part one. But in regard to story structure, the work is lacking. The characters had my interest initially but it never paid off and by the last 80 pages I was trudging through just simply to say I'd finished. The main character and narrator, Vincent, struck me as brooding and self-absorbed. Wanting to transplant himself but continually coming back to his roots simply so he could have a dysfunctional family to blame for his own hum-drum existence. Nothing new there. If you value your reading time, take a pass until the author (or his editor) have more experience and/or a story to tell.
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