Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I am stunned by all the positive reviews and think they must be plants. I read a lot of books, some good, some bad, and very rarely feel moved enough to write a review. But this has got to be one of the WORST books I have ever read. The story has potential to be interesting, and I can see how it might make a good movie. One star just for the info on the Irish famine, which I didn't know that much about. However, the writing style is absolutely atrocious. The narrative jumps all over the place at breakneck speed with no sense of timing. The deaths of major characters occur in a paragraph or two, the same amount of time/space that's devoted to a single meaningless conversation. There is no character development whatsoever. Could any of these other reviewers describe, really, the personality characteristics of Tuck? Or how they differed from Paul Tiberius or Raleigh Buchanan? My other pet peeve with this book is how *every* single character/street/store/location/etc gets named. The writing is bursting with names, and it makes it difficult to keep track of who/what is important. Walter the cat gets his own name even though he only appears in a single sentence. Sorry, I don't mean to rant, but I honestly don't understand how others enjoyed this book. For a much better historical fiction piece set in Boston, try Dennis Lehane's "The Given Day."