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Title: Marginal
Review: The greatest disappointment with this novel is the lack of character development. It seems like the author expect the reader to know her characters or at least of them before opening the book. There is too little about them to come to know or care about them through the entire work.They are good and interesting characters and some stand out like the brilliant depiction of an agent who poses as a mental health professional who pretends to be a different, classical, psychiatrist from the past every day. As he goes from Freud to Jung and onwards, he entertains greatly. This character is the highlight of the book.At some points it is laboriously written and at others far too little detail surfaces to give much insight or understanding to the reader.A good effort, it is possible the book was over-edited or written about characted the author is very acquainted with in her own mind and that connection was lost on paper.
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