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Title: Not all it's cracked up to be
Review: I can't say that I really enjoyed this all that much. I picked it up because I had read two good reviews of it, but I feel differently. I have a lot of issues with this: one, I didn't feel anything for the characters - there wasn't much development at all; two, the plot was thin - a page-turner this is not; and three, the novel had a distinctive English feel to it (meaning it's a little boring). Maybe I would have felt differently if I had read some of the other 'Frank Elder' novels, but I haven't, and I don't. And except for the last 50 predictable pages, there's not much action here, either.
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