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Title: Story refutes Darwn - and doesn't help Creationists, either
Review: Nothing I like better than a complicated story with complex characters that demonstrate some kind of evolution. This was decidedly not one of those stories. Mother of Pearl began with a certain promise. Then suddenly, all of the characters started sounding alike, behaving alike, thinking alike and the story melted into a forced and painfully strained ending. In short, the entire novel DEVOLVED. There was no epiphany, no great moral lesson, not a jot of wisdom. Most of the characters ended up thinking with their genitals rather than their brains. Even Joody Two Sun, who seemed to have the most promise, fades to mediocrity. A very bad soap opera of a novel.
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