
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I don't even feel like doing a full review of this book. It isn't bad. If it was bad I could get mad at it. In fact, it's worse than bad. It's dull, uninspired, stale, and insipid to the point I want to get out the thesaurus to find even more words for uninteresting. It's competently written in the sense that everything is spelled correctly, its grammar gets an A+, and you know what is going on at all times. But writing is more than just stringing a bunch of words together. There's a missing humanity to this book that you would get even from a badly remembered acid flashback. This book checks all the boxes for structure, character definition, and a host of other things that I harp on other books for not doing as well. However, even though it does all those other things right, it fails at the most important aspect of any book. This isn't a story worth telling.
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