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Summary: Don't Waste Your Time Unless You Have a LONG Commute
Review: I have so many problems with this book. I will enumerate only a few.The dialogue includes multi-syllabic words uncommon in everyday conversation. I.e, Chief states, when reflecting upon how he felt looking at the earth from outer space, "I just felt superfluous." This coming from an astronaut who has not used a word with more than 2 syllables until the 25th chapter. Many of the sentences composed by Ms. Brown are stilted and discordant because of the somewhat advanced vocabulary she has chosen. These advanced words just pop up sporadically and do nothing to add to the story's fluency. In fact, they detract from the flow. I did not feel that the story was written by someone of Ms. Brown's extensive experience. Perhaps she is just getting lazy. Many times the book read like an immature 9th grader had actually been the one doing the writing. Although she has created an interesting (but not irresistible) plot, it seems that oftentimes she is just stringing along some words (that often don't sound very good together) to get the book finished and off to the publisher. I personally find mysteries with a psychotic freak as the central criminal figure a little trite and too easy. There are so many of those type of stories to choose from. Also, the reading by Jane Maxwell was v. bad. She made everyone's sentences sound so over-the-top dramatic. Very annoying. Perhaps I would have liked this book a little bit more if I had read it myself. And the cataclysmic surprise at the end becomes obvious by, say, the 12th chapter. (However, by the end, certain character inconsistencies are explained-so just bear with `em if you plan on reading this book despite all the bad reviews-for me, while I was reading, the inconsistencies were extremely annoying.)
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