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Title: A waste of time
Review: Without exaggeration, one of the most inept, mediocre novels I've ever read. If you were just given the manuscript without knowing that it was a published novel, you would think that it was a first draft, written by a high school student. The prose is flat, the characters unsympathetic, the metaphors obvious, there's not one genuine, natural moment in the entire story, and the attempts at poetic imagery reek of a stylist obtuse enough not to realize how utterly bland and uninspired his work is. This author's a tourist. If you cherish your time as much as I do, don't waste it on this.
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