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Did somebody else take over as writer halfway through this?
A marvelously written descriptive book for the first half. Expanded my senses. If you read this far, close the book and throw it away. You know how some authors make stacks of 3X5 cards to keep track of each character, then sort them by time? This author appears to have done this, then randomly without reason jumps forward or backward in time. Okay I can live with that, though he makes no sense of it here.
Halfway through the book, when we care about the resolution of each character, his dog eats the stack of 3x5s which have the endings. He drops each character carelessly, lazily, with little to no explanation off the edge of the novel.
This is the most unsatisfying, lazy book I have read in years. If it had started poorly, I wouldn't have bothered past the first chapter. As it is, I felt betrayed.
