It switches from one tone to another in clumsy fashion, seeming to stagger toward a coherent conclusion. The narrative, the voice, and the perspective are all, to put it simply, wrong. For a time I thought I might learn something from this as a counter-example, but it is so ineptly done that it doesn’t even have that dubious virtue. Yeah, the opening premise is promising – an accident unravels an old scheme predicated on identity theft – but it goes downhill rapidly. I abide by a pretty strict Life’s Too Short to Finish Bad Books policy, but this one slipped through. To be fair, the book is so bad that our reader might have been more effective with something else, but he didn't help. He over-enunciated, had little sense of the "drama" taking place, and seemed out of touch with the purported tradition/genre of the work. It was hard at times to distinguish a bad book from bad narration, but I got the consistent sense that our reader was doing an infomercial.or maybe a middle-school educational film. Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Jonathan Yen?
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