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Title: Doesn't Come Close to Still Holding or I'll Let You Go
Review: Still Holding and I'll Let You Go are among my favorite novels of the past 5 years. By comparison, The Crysanthemum Palace was a huge disappointment. At no point did the characters, the plot or the Hollywood environment grab me the way those other two novels did.Children of celebrities is a potentially great subject for a novel. Unfortunately, the three major characters in this novel held very limited appeal for me. And the parallels between the science fiction TV series and what was happening in the characters' real lives just didn't work for me in the least.For a new reader of Bruce Wagner, I'd start with the second, then third of the cellphone trilogy and leave this one alone.
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