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Title: Too much summary, not enough real emotion
Review: The reviewers have not been kind to this book and having read it, I know why. It has too much intellectual stuff and not enough true emotion. It has too much summary and not enough rendered experience. The locales, the historical references, the literary allusions all add up to prove that Erica did a great deal of authentic research about ancient Greece and Delphi and all that. But making a non-tendentious novel by the non-episodic coherent intergration of all this information is something she didn't do. You will get more enjoyment from reading her other works such as Fruits & Vegetables, Half-Lives, Fear of Flying, and Witches.
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