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Title: Needs edited
Review: I'm nearly done with this (93%, according to my kindle). I wonder if it is worth finishing. The blurb sounded interesting, and initially the main character seemed interesting. I wanted to like this book, but as I read, the chance of that gradually diminished.I think the idea has potential, but the writing needs to be both cut and expanded, contradictory as that may sound.The thing is very wordy, partially due to the excessive use of progressive tense (i.e., sentences with endless strings of verbs ending in "ing"). The prose is often overly melodramatic. There is tons of description that really isn't necessary to move the story along. This is the sort of stuff that could be cut, especially during the agonizingly slow (and lacking in tension) action sequences.The characters could be more fleshed out, and some of the plot elements reworked to make them less cliche.
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