Janice - reviewed on 6/12/2010 + 646 more book reviews

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Although this book has an intriguing premise -- a group of Guards who keep the dead of London from troubling the living -- it's one of the worst written things I've ever encountered. Twee, saccharine sweet, florid, arch, artificial, affected, amateurish prose. I am amazed that this thing saw publication. I think it can only be read by people following plot only, because its prose is so toothgrindingly awful. That said, I have to admit I didn't finish it -- it got worse & worse & in the end I just couldn't.

Too bad for the story -- as a graphic novel it might have worked quite well because then I wouldn't have had to suffer through the author's awful, awful writing style.

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