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Book Review of Naked Came the Phoenix

Naked Came the Phoenix
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This mystery novel, written by 13 different women (one chapter each) was unusual. While the mystery plot was so-so, the fun came from sampling different writers' work, and seeing how each advanced the plot and set up a new challenge for those to follow. Probably the hardest chapter to write (and also the hardest to read) was the last one, which had to tie up all the loose ends and bring resolution to some pretty far-flung plot elements.

The surprising thing about this book is that although I'm a fan of most of the writers, I wouldn't have been able to recognize any chapter as having been written by a particular author. They're all talented in different ways, and yet they wrote a very homogenized book.