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Title: Ace if you're a local
Review: Which, as it happens, I am. Pretty well everywhere in the book, at least on the Veritie side, is accurately the town where I live, and that makes for a lot of fun for the local reader (only Blackacre Farm is made up out of the whole cloth, SFAIK). How much that is worth to a reader 4000 miles away, I am not sure, but I think it probably helps to give the book depth.The book *is* very chatty and the plot a tad predictable, but it's pretty well written, and I suspect that it serves as the introductory volume of a series. I hope so. I'm not particularly taken by the Haven books, but I would certainly follow if it develops as a series.
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