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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: (WFC) The River Judge  (Water Outlaws) by S L Huang
Date: 5 Jan 2025 17:22:33 -0000
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Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>If this is consistently the case (Mr. Nicholl's reviews encourage you
>to read it, and it disappoints) then that makes a very valuable
>resource: you can safely ignore any book he reviews and the review
>encourages you to read it.

It's not consistent... and in this case I really liked the idea, just not
the implementation.  I'm kind of glad I read the book, but I would't read
it again and I don't feel like I need to read the rest of the series.

I think maybe some of my problem is that I don't really like the idea of
novel series.  I want a story arc with an ending.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."