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Title: annoying grammatical idiosyncresies
Review: I thought that Zimler did a great job giving shape to the times and places, HOWEVER . . . his use of passive verbs and especially the overuse of "was gifted with" just drove me nuts. I speak Hebrew and know enough Portugese to know that it is not some poetic translation of an idiom in either language. His Hebrew transliterations were sometimes unrecognizable (I'm still puzzled by a few). I found the voices of all the "bad guys" to be the same. This made me often have to stop and refigure out who was who. The unravelling of the mystery is rather muddy and just not interesting. The use of Farid as a human crime lab with "black butterfly eyelashes" was a bit of a stretch. In conclusion, texture and times: good job. Dialog internal and voiced: irritating
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