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Title: Repetitious repetition (repetitively)
Review: This should really have been a short story or novella. The entire time I felt like I was reading a school paper whose author was trying to meet some enormous minimum word limit. Everything was repeated ad nauseam. I found myself saying things out loud, like, "Gee, I wonder what Dunworthy thinks about the 1300s? Oh, here we are: the fourteenth time he grumbled about the Plague and the highwaymen really cemented his opinion for me."Also, as others have said, the author clearly didn't know what she was doing with the dialog. I lived in England for 7 years--Oxford for 5 of those--and I never heard anyone say they were going on "vac" (they go on holiday), or that they saw something on "the vids" (referring to television, I assumed). I suppose we could chalk these up to the author's imagined future-slang, but it came off as grating for me. Also, every time the American looked at her "digital" I wanted to roll my eyes.
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