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Title: Boring and infuriating
Review: This book combined two attributes rarely seen together in the same book: it was both boring and infuriating. The boredom inhered in the slow movement of the plot and its utterly predictable contours once it started moving. The infuriating aspect of the book lay in the denseness of its heroine. She was so impervious to hints--hints that caused me to figure out what was really going on hundreds of pages before she did--that it made me want to shake her. The heroine was credulous and shallow, and lacked any of the charm that can redeem novels like this even if the plots are contrived and ridiculous.The plot of this book is thin to transparency, and its characterizations are charicatures gone wrong. Everyone in it is shallow beyond belief. In short, do not waste your time and/or money.
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