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Title: What did I miss?
Review: It came highly recommended by a local bookshop so I was really looking forward to getting started. Unexpectedly, I was very quickly put off, amongst other things, by the jarring, clever-clever literary references that seemed more to be to do with an ego-trip for the author than anything that added to the story. Confused, I gave up after just twenty pages.
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