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Title: Briefly inventive, but overall disappointing
Review: This should have been a very good book. If you read the blurb, read the plot, or even try to summarize it afterwards, it comes out as a good book.But. The writing style is overly stylized and becomes taxing and dull about halfway through the book. The lack of character development and character insight is frustrating -- as Othmer adds more color and strangeness to his characters throughout the book, he makes them more superficial and unbelievable. And the storyline, such that it is, gets horrendously convoluted before leading everyone to the conclusion that they knew was coming all along.
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