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Title: This ain't no Jimmy Bond!
Review: Don't waste your money. This was written by an author in his sleep assuring it didn't get in the way of his real job. It is a very turgid and fractured piece of writing, where themes with the hint of promise are not fully explored leaving the book plastic and vacuous in feel, like a hermetically sealed meal. Only few - VERY few - characters are well-defined with some sense of past associated to their current actions. Worst of all is that the very good work developed in Mr Higson's Silverfin has not been capitalised upon. In the first book we felt the era in which Eton had existed - now it is just a pastiche; a short nod before getting into the Bond-movie like action. A great shame, and anyone really taking time to give this nonsense five stars would also possibly be shopping tonight at the Supermarket for that hermetically sealed meal!!
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