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Title: Tepid
Review: This was my first Harold Robbins, and if this is typical of his storytelling, it may very well be my last. Perhaps it was scandalous and ground-breaking at the time it was published, but the book didn't age well. I never did feel anything for the lead character, JeriLee. I didn't sympahtize for her when bad things happened (and there were plenty), and I didn't cheer for her when something good happened. Perhaps because nothing good ever does happen to her. Robbins needed to lighten up a bit. JeriLee needed some shining moments in this morass of melancholy. Or I should say, I as a reader needed some shining moments. This was a heavy, depressing story.
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