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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15102.Gentlemen_and_Players_A_Novel?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Gentlemen and Players: A Novel" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1166670084m/15102.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15102.Gentlemen_and_Players_A_Novel?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Gentlemen and Players: A Novel</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9432.Joanne_Harris">Joanne Harris</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8821975?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>Another NY Times Bestseller I took a chance on - it's lovely cover was calling to me from the "Favorite Paperbacks" display at Borders. It was worth the 3-4 days it took me to read. For the first 200 pages or so, I thought I knew what was going on. Insert major plot twist. Then during the next 200 pages or so, I was sure I knew what was going on. Insert another major plot twist. Result = WOW ending! Unfortunately, there wasn't a lot of character development, so I didn't feel like I "knew" the characters at the end of the book. This left me feeling unsympathetic towards the characters and I think took away from the "wow factor" that the end certainly had. I got the sense that the author wanted this story to be character driven, so that was somewhat disappointing. <br/> <br/>Also, there are two "voices" telling the story and from the beginning they were hard for me to distinguish. The story starts out muddy and scattered and comes into greater clarity as the book progresses. I think this was intentional, so kudos for great writing. She certainly had me guessing for most of the book. But that also made the book less readable for me - I really did feel confused for the first 150 pages. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/597273?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>