In other words, the book suffers from being perfectly all right. The sliced-and-rearranged plot structure creates some thrills, but the writing style and ideas never exceed the formula. It’s a perfectly all right crime thriller with romance, serial killer tropes, and action. Sadly, nothing becomes passionate, baroque, or clever enough to take the story beyond perfectly all right.
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Freedom is Costly But Priceless: If Not Maintained It Will Not Remain
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What has happened to the Christian heritage that made America so unique? Dave Meyer argues that a key problem is not so much politics, but the principles we’ve forgotten that made our culture and political process work.
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There is not a lot of Christian impact in this book except for the ending.
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Written in a futuristic society, ten years from now, in Washington state, this is the story of two brothers, both deaf, yet their deafness happening at different stages of their lives and in different ways.
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