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Title: Unexpectedly charming!
Review: I won't lie to you. This book has its share of dragging moments, and sometimes the sheer twistedness of the complex coincidences and paradoxes made my head spin. But in the end, it was all worth it. The characters are sympathetic and fairly realistic, and Willis handles the rather tired premise of a stranger in a strange time quite deftly. Though I think the "comedy" angle is overrepresented in reviews, several scenes are unexpectedly hilarious. The convoluted and intertwined mysteries all make near-perfect sense in the end, and they're written in such a way that figuring out the solution to one won't immediately destroy the book because there's so much still to puzzle out. I strongly recommend this book to mystery buffs and fans of corkscrew-twisted plots.
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