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Book Review of California: A Novel

California: A Novel
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I started off thinking that the main character was perhaps mentally or emotionally disabled, and that intrigued me. Not many novels in this genre have that character type as a lead character. But it turned out she was just poorly drawn -- a 27-year-old reacting to things the way a 13-year-old might.

The characters had swings of opinion and emotion that were not backed by an internal logic, nor the logic of events.

There were interesting elements: the "forms", the pirates, the color red, but I was left dissatisfied, yet not yearning to read a sequel.