Nearly every plot turn is driven by magic. maybe I'm too pragmatic, but it starts raising a whole lot of TQM flags for me, a entire town, that's a lot of infrastructure to deal with.And there's too much magic in this book for my taste. I've never bought into the entire Midwestern town being fueled by magic. My problem right out of the gate is that this a genre I have never been much fond of to begin with. So.not a favorite, or one I'm interested in rereading. The basic structure was mildly interesting, but where it was different from what I've seen before it seemed weaker. And the timeline, when it's finally revealed, makes it even odder - only four years? So all his memories of normality must have been implanted.and why couldn't they be removed, or at least lightened, so that he could understand better? I guess Clive fits the stereotype of the incompetent magician.sort of. One thing that bothered me throughout was Jack's stubbornness about what was going on - he determinedly ignored everything that happened around him. Frankie is also too strange, and too much of a deus ex machina. I liked Wendy, a bit, and Anders quite a lot - but they're very definitely secondary characters, with tiny POV parts. Jack is too strange, and too whiny, to hold my interest the events are too confusing, and by the time things started connecting and making sense the book was almost over. And not, I'm afraid, very interesting to me.
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