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Title: Base plot OK, writing suffers.
Review: The plot may be doubtfully realistic, but it's not what bothers me about this book - Actually the plot idea is fairly exciting. The way the people talk to each other, really bothers me. It's either scriptspeak, or overtly complicated. It's just not realistic. Even in heated action the characters will use complicated play-on-words, analogies and sayings which seems completely ridiculous to me. The way brother and sister talk to each other also seems way overscripted and complicated. People just don't talk like that.Moreover there's a lack of degrees of contrast - From the happy happy rosy family dinners to the evil emotionless enemy (who will still be shocked, though, at seeing an american flag, while the good guys will stare in reverence.....sigh).But the base plot is good, and I kept on going because of that.
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