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Title: A Mess
Review: This story starts terrifically.For the first 60 or 70 pages, I couldn't put it down.The plot involving the battered baby and her suicide (?) mother is riveting.But then Peak drives into the sands.He detours into a illegal-immigrant story. The story has potential, but he makes little of it. Only one of the dozen immigrants (Nadya) comes alive. The rest are just unnamed children (except Peter, who dies offstage).Worse, the love-story rolls in, and contains absolutely no electricity. The sex scenes are laughable. Right out of a plumbing manual.Forty pages from the end of the book--when the plot should be careening at 110 mph, nothing was happening (except sex-plumbing), I lost interest, and stopped reading.How could something that started so well end so lamely?????Judge for yourself.Or, if you are wise, don't.
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