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Title: Does not deliver on promises
Review: This book could have been so much more. Instead it grabs you with very cool short stories of mystical and possibly magical artifacts and their provenance only to let you down on the plot. It turns out that all those artifacts matter in the main story only as a collection. Not to use them in a story is actually a crime. You can't get people excited only to leave them abruptly in the cold, but that is exactly what the author does. The mystery is weak and extremely slow. And the resolution is even weaker and does not satisfy after all the build up of the individual artifacts. It is possible that the author was aiming for a sequel, but after such poor execution I, for one, would not be interested in a sequel in the slightest.
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