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Title: Characterization (warning--contains spoiler)
Review: Since Susanna Moore opens this brief novel with heavy refs to irony, I suppose it's reasonable enough for her streetwise narrator to get ripped off and then whacked by the very people she should be hip to.But there needs to be more development of the anonymous narrator to make her shift from skeptic to gullible runoff victim believable. It could be believable if the author hadn't skimped in the middle. There's no development that could make the transition believable, so it's not. There are a lot of wasted words devoted to what could have been a subplot re Cornelius, but this text seemd by the end to have been a poorly-developed red-herring in the detective aspect. This author may have talent but needs to go to the gym.
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