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Title: Did we read the same book?
Review: Harrowing, great fiction, page-turner...Looking over these reviews, I must have read a different book. The characterization was sloppy, to say the least. The guy who said "youse" so you knew he was a louse (and he said it every stinking time he opened his mouth), cardboard characters aplenty, characters who changed their perceptions of each other just long enough to have sex, firefighting facts dropped with the subtlty of lead balloons...This was the first book I'd read by Suzanne Chazin. Even though I bought the second book at the same time and actually have it in my possession, I can't bring myself to read it. I paid $2 for both books and I feel like I got ripped off.I suggest Earl Emerson's novels for truly well-written firefighter novels. Emerson is a firefighter and, unlike Chazin, manages to create a believeable and taut thriller.
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