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Title: What's wrong with the past tense?
Review: I really liked the characters and the idea of this book, but I found it almost unreadable. The story was told completely through dialogue and the PRESENT tense. I've never read a book completely told in the present tense and now I know why. Although the reader might think this would increase the intimacy, it doesn't. Instead, the brain needs to slog through a tense that just doesn't work at all.I've never read a book by Ms. Markham and never will again until she writes on the front that she uses past tenses.Wasn't there an editor at Warner to point this difficulty out?
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