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Title: Bees was excellent. This is terrible.
Review: I can't begin to describe how disappointed I was in this novel. Bees was sooooooo good. Gone are the many wonderful turns of phrase and settings that drew you into the Bees story. Gone are the wonderfully drawn characters. Instead, you will be treated to the main character's endless memories of this and that, none of which the author gave any reason to care about. The endless "I recall when . . . I remembered that . . . It reminded me of the time . . ." just made the story drag and drag and drag and drag and drag and drag and I found myself reading Mermaid only because I liked Bees so much. Because the writing style is so much more amateurish, I suspect this book was either 1) written long before Bees, OR 2) written against an impossibly tight deadline. Just look at all the sentences with "as" connectives - it's a dead giveaway of amateur writers. Mermaid doesn't hold a candle to Bees and those that weren't blinded by the success of Bees can see it.
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