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Title: Poor plot and character development
Review: Characters come and go without making much of an impression or advancing the plot. The most intense part of the story - a chance sexual encounter in a lesbian bar - occurs in the third chapter. The reader should really dislike the bad guys and root for the good guys. There is an evil boss, but he's a cartoon character - utterly predictable, speaking dreadful dialogue. He gets his due "off stage" and not at the hands of our hero. The author invested little in the way of defining the bomber's actions, motivations, or pathology. The protagonist's love interests are neurotic, controlling women. This odd treatment - no definition of the antognist, pathological characters supporting the protagonist - left this reader with no sympathy for the hero or the outcome of the book. Rather than write an ending, the protagonist falls unconscious and it remains for minor characters to finish the story.
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