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Title: Plodding
Review: Normally, I'm a fan of Weber's work, but this book is too flawed to keep me interested in the series.The biggest problem: exposition. There's so much of it in this book that very little interesting actually happens. This book is effectively just the setup for the next book, but without enough story of its own to stand up as an interesting read. The resulting pacing is awful.Put another way, it is as if the series bible was spliced into the text of the book by mistake.Beyond that, there are too many annoying or uninteresting characters. Other reviewers's accusations of incompetent characters are on the mark.Bottom line: Overwritten, underedited. This has been a trend in Weber's recent work, but it is particularly bad on this book.
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