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Title: Excruciating Reading
Review: For all the hype, (NY Times Bestseller??!!!), I was absolutley floored by how bad this book was. The writing is so poor I had trouble concentrating on the plot, which was probably a good thing.How many times can each character say something "grimly"? Other repetitions with adjectives, verbs and adverbs (often in the same paragraph) drove me to distraction. Someone please buy Jance a Thesaurus.Conversations between characters were vacuous, and Joanna's thoughts in italics were just plain stupid. Did I mention the exclamation points? That's 12th grade stuff, folks. Who the heck was the editor on this book?The only mystery about this book was why I read the whole thing. Guess I wanted to see how truly bad it was, and I was not disappointed.If you want good tight writing and twisting plots, try Karin Slaughter's books.
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