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I enjoyed this book for the most part. I found the characters engaging - and the story well written. However I found some elements of the plot really too drawn out. I feel like there was an extraneous 100 pages there. There are several plots going on at once - which is great fun - but one of the main ones was so easy to see where it was going I was so frustrated it took so long to reveal. Honestly it seemed to just snail crawl towards its destination.
The book is remarkably dated - in sort of a fun way. At one point there is a paragraph long discussion comparing characters in the book to those in Ellen Degeneres' long departed sitcom and I had to wrack my memory to remember anything about that show.
All in all a good read - nice to take on a beach vacation or something like that - but IMHO could have used a stiff edit. (