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...novel's opening pages are plodding and somewhat confusing, but once the reader catches hold of the plot-strings, Miranda's book becomes a satisfying pageturner...
Miranda fails to build convincing suspense, and the dialogue is laughable at times, although this may be the translator's fault. The author manages, however, to transport the reader to a highly-charged and colorful location with de Matos as guide...
...screwed the poor, ignored the middle class, appointed frightening Supreme Court Justices, broken his promises. When his non-plan plans have gone awry, he has refused to acknowledge problems--recession? What recession?--or blamed them on Congress. At least on the domestic front, it doesn't take a lip-reader to realize that the While Horton president has no principles beyond ensuring his own reelection...
...Youthful Figure. The explanation -- to the extent that there can be one (after a certain uncritical mass is reached, a best seller best-sells because it is a best seller)--is that the villains were the partners of a rich, greedy, overbearing, dishonest law firm. In loving detail, the reader was encouraged to hate these poltroons...
This brings the reader back to the question of empowerment, a very feminist notion. But this book's message and Chellis' voice are far from feminist. Instead of recognizing the societal and cultural barriers that women contend with, Chellis chides readers not to "blame the system." The absence of minority women from the lower echelons of society highlight the book's and the author's tenuous conclusions...