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Title: A labor of love...
Review: The only reason I still read this series is out of reverence for the greatness of the first three books in the series.It is quite simply a labor of love to read them. I don't enjoy doing it, but I feel like I owe it to the characters to check up on them.Well this 10th book has erased that feeling. The characters I loved are dead. RJ killed them. He smothered them in banal descriptions, trite quasi-emotions and hackneyed repetitive dialogue.I am no longer interested in what happens to them. Good books are about who feels the pain. Those are the characters that grab a reader. The character that is MOST effected by events...that most hurts is usually the most compelling.Which is why the best part of CoT was reading the reviews. That is where the hurt is. The people feeling the pain are the readers--not the characters.
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