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Title: disappointment
Review: I bought this first-time novelist's book based on its promising storyline about a murder mystery involving ancient relic and was crudely compared to the Da Vinci Code in my local paper. Oh, boy, it is not even close. It is intertwined with isolated episodes about how these relics were robbed in the past, which collectively takes up to half the book's volume and turns out to have close to nothing to do with solving the so-called mystery. There is no suspense, no climax and no twist. The mystery was not fully solved and the gutless protagonist ended up just quitting both his investigation and his love affair, which I was shocked to find out after enduring the uneventful story.
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