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Title: what's the point?
Review: Had I not paid for this book I never would have finished the first chapter. The entire first section of the book spans a period of about an hour, and yet for some inexplicable reason about ten characters silently recount their life stories to themselves while standing around waiting for a ceremony.This unnatural inward dialogue continues throughout the book, and to me it was an entirely ineffective mechanism for telling a story.There's not much of a satisfying story in these 700 pages either. Another reviewer was not exaggerating when they mentioned that the suspense half way through the book was who would win best dressed at a ball. From the book's size I was expecting a self-contained epic; in the end I got some resolutions to some lightly interesting plot lines with a fair amount of items left unresolved.I fail to see what the time and effort were worth.
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