Leni Zumas's writing crackles. Her books are sharp, bleak, funny, and possibly dangerous. When her collection of short stories, Farewell Navigator,...
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This was one of the worst books I've ever read. I mean I understand how it shows that "good guys" can accidentally do "bad things" but it was incredibly boring, and I only kept reading because I thought the end would offer some explanation for that "fateful night" but here's a warning: it doesn't. I mean you find out what he "did," but you can figure that out from the summary. Gigi says he did the "bad thing" and he says he didn't. That's the whole book. Don't read it. Good LORD it was boring. I absolutely had not one iota of emotion for any of the characters. I'm not being excessively mean because I don't do that. I usually like almost every book I read, so it must be quite bad for me to not like it enough to write a review. Quite bad, indeed.
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asdfasdf1234, August 7, 2008
This was one of the worst books I've ever read. I mean I understand how it shows that "good guys" can accidentally do "bad things" but it was incredibly boring, and I only kept reading because I thought the end would offer some explanation for that "fateful night" but here's a warning: it doesn't. I mean you find out what he "did," but you can figure that out from the summary. Gigi says he did the "bad thing" and he says he didn't. That's the whole book. Don't read it. Good LORD it was boring. I absolutely had not one iota of emotion for any of the characters. I'm not being excessively mean because I don't do that. I usually like almost every book I read, so it must be quite bad for me to not like it enough to write a review. Quite bad, indeed.(21 of 28 readers found this comment helpful)