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Title: Annoying!
Review: I found this book incredibly annoying. It was recommended to me by several friends and I ploughed through it in hope the story would improve. It never did.First, the author's style is excessively verbose. Throughout the book, you'll find phrases like "I measured my length upon the ground." What is wrong with saying, "I fell"? Another aspect of the author's style is to overly-beautify *everything*. Nothing is *ever* dirty, or ugly, or rotten, or bad.Second, the only character with some depth, personality, and motive to him died less than a third of the way into the book. I almost gave up on the book there. I should have; it would have been a better ending.Third, as if the main character was not enough of a perfect doll-puppet, the author chose to pair her up with a perfectly devoted ideal and idealistic warrior-paladin.For me, this book offered disappointments at every turn.
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