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Title: Starts interesting, becomes a train wreck
Review: The story starts off interestingly enough to draw you in and make you forgive the robotic, stilted dialog and one-dimensional characters. About two-thirds of the through the novel, though, it feels like Russell just gave up on revealing what's going on through the events, and characters start vomiting out long explanations of the plot in prose that sounds like they're quoting from a newspaper article (or in the more painful cases, from self-help books). Which doesn't matter, because you'll have figured out most of it long before the revelations). Once the plot grinds interminably to its resolution, there are a couple of less-obvious big reveals - but at that point, the characters have become so uninteresting and unlikeable that it's hard to care. Then it finally ends, and you think. "Well, at least it was only three bucks." It's really shame (ahem!) because the premise is really good.
