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Title: Rei was a turnoff for me
Review: I haven't read any of the previous books, and when I opened this one, I liked a Japan I could recognise; but the style became really tiresome by the time I was halfway through the book. Who cares for a litany of brand names after a while? The story would have worked equally well without them.And I was pretty put off by a Rei Shimura who made incredible leaps of 'intuition'. Japan's full of people. Why should any particular passerby be the people she's looking for?It's a mystery. There are bound to be wrong conclusions and red herrings along the way. But with the way Rei makes her conclusions, I couldn't even respect her as a detective.All in all, disappointing. Perhaps Massey's earlier, and later work's better.
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