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Title: An excellent, very funny, first novel.
Review: FLRD is an excellent, very funny, first novel. The setting is urban, the characters young and at that stage where they're either successful or bored and onto their next job. The male characters aren't as interesting as the female characters, but they're well done.FLRD is quite similar in style and approach to Russell Smith's novels (eg Noise), but she does a better job with her characters. Russell Smith's female characters are shallow plot decorations, but Roxane Ward's female and male characters are better balanced.Indigo, the main character, is the sort of person one wishes one had as a friend.It's nice to see a woman outdoing the men in writing a funny, urban novel for a change.
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