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Title: Hard-to-put-down suspense novel.
Review: The action really moves in this hard-to-put-down suspense novel. This book has a whole lot of interesting stuff going on -- love, death, religion, poison, babies, murder, "crazy" people, "sane" people. There is beautiful -- even magical -- language in the author's mataphors, but they are at times bizarre and incomprehensible. The mind games are pretty scary. There are also situations that are brutal and frightening. I suppose some of the plot resolution is predictable, but there are quite a few surprises. After the initial set-up, the book is very fast-paced, and it has an interesting ending. The characters are totally different from any others I've encountered -- EVERYone has some kind of flaw. This family puts the "dys" in dysfunctional! An interesting read.
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