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Title: Rather bland
Review: I started this thinking this would be a grand fantasy read, but the fantasy elements in this one are rather light. That's okay, and I wouldn't have minded so much if the rest of the book made up for the fantasy-lite experiences. However, the book starts off rather slow. It's a long while before it picks up as the author lays out the elaborate "scheme" the characters are involved in. Those were some of the slowest parts. It did pick up in parts of the book and there were so geniune good moments, but in the balance of things, not enough. Also, I'm no prude. I swear myself on occassion, but the characters swear nearly every time they speak, high class, low class, middle class, they all do and for not reason. I swear when I'm mad or tense. The characters in this swear for no reason at all except that the author seems to think it's cool. On the plus, and the reason for 2 stars, is some of the action scenes were pretty good, but they were far apart and few.
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