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Title: Bad writing, unbelievable story
Review: Several things bugged me about The Pledge. One, I thought it was terribly written, full of cliches and stereotypical characters that bogged down every page. Author Rob Kean desperately needs an editor; the book's 514 pages could have easily been sliced by a third. I was skimming through the final pages, something no novel should ever make you do. Plus, there was another thing that nagged me throughout about The Pledge - it should have been set in the 50s! Eliminate the few references to cell phones and e-mail, and Kean's bunch of mafia frat thugs would have been much more believable conducting business in any era but the '90s.
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