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The Rook
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July 1, 2013
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What Members Thought

Suzanne Berget
The story in itself is quite interesting, there's a lot of cool characters and powers afoot in this book, but it takes waaaaaaay too long before the story goes anywhere. The whole "amnesia"- racket is really just a set-up for O'Malley to insert massive infodumps in the story, without them being infodumps becuase they're disguised as letters. Tut tut.

It really hampers the pacing of the story, and the ending is 75% Bond villain-esque expositions and explanations.

I wish the editors would have been
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Jeni
Feb 02, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
The letters to herself were an ingenious way to do backstory, and it's refreshing to see a female lead without a love interest and be fine with that. ...more
Nina
Mar 09, 2014 marked it as to-read
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May 04, 2015 rated it it was amazing
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Feb 02, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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