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Title: Couldn't even get through it.
Review: I must agree that "The Face of Deception" is riddled with incredibly contrived literary devices. My favorite such literary device, however, was the "chilling end-of-chapter one-liner," which was so self-consciously overused as to make for great comedy. You know the type of one-liner I mean; they usually occur when the dramatic action is rolling happily along, and then the protagonist insists on thinking something short, silly, and incredibly awkward, such as (in the case of this book) "It was hard to equate a savior with a killer." (I am paraphrasing.) Or something as trite as "If only they had enought time." (Paraphrasing again.)In such cases, one can almost imagine a director calling out "Aaaaand, cut!" Indeed, Iris, it is difficult to equate a savior with a killer; but it also hard to equate a forced chapter ending with a believable character, and this is one of the major problems of this book.
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