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Title: this isn't writing, it's typing.
Review: This is as maudlin a book as can be. Most of the time the characters are weeping: Kay cries when she gets a love note from the grave, Marino cries when Kay abuses him, Lucy cries when Kay cries which makes Jo cry over Lucy which makes Jo's parents cry over sin. Kay's stud muffin cries when Kay tells him not to love her, which makes her misty, which enrages Marino to tears. Benton doesn't cry because he's dead. And the werewolf doesn't cry or speak, which is too bad because he's the only interesting figure in the book. Other than that the coincidences are cukoo, Ms. Cornwell promoted a nice expense-paid trip for herself to Paris on the Concorde out of this and we have the usual Tom Clancy imitation of arcania covering up that which is really dreary detail. As her last book suggested, Ms. Cornwell is out of gas.
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