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Title: Not an unexpected disappointment, but it's still too bad.
Review: I learned my lesson from the last couple of books in the series and borrowed this one from the library. I didn't read much of it before it was obvious that once again, Anita-as-boring-[...] was in residence and I returned it. It may be that, as a reviewer or two point out, the author wishes to go in "new directions", but authors with hugely popular series who end up trashing their characters in these "new directions" (Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series is going down the tubes as well) should remember that the reason they became hugely popular authors in the first place was that the readers loved the characters as originally written. If this was the first book in the series I would never have bought one book, much less most of the series.
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