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Title: Who Cares About These People?
Review: It started out all right, but soon plunged into long stretches of dry historical facts that read like "Robert, Duke of Albany, brother of late king Robert III, held hostage by his nephew, Murdoch Earl of Fife, who murdered the last English king, who chose a bride--"Soon I stopped caring who anyone was, or attempting to keep track of them. The plotting was choppy with no vitality or momentum, the narrative pedestrian and unimaginative -- and, come to think of it, isn't "imaginative narrative" one of the top goals for a writer? All the characters are cardboard-thin, and the narrative point of view skipped all over the place; sometimes you're reading three different character's thoughts on the same page!And the main plot point, the kind sending Fiona to be a spy...Why didn't he just get someone who was WILLING to do it???Well, that's where I stopped reading, so unfortunately didn't get to the "gratuitous sex" parts I heard mention of.
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