I particularly agree about the annoying characters. So much so that I mentioned it to a friend after reading the book. Still it is a talent of sorts to make the minor bit characters more memorable then the main characters.
The ending seemed a bit hurried, as if the author just wanted to get the book done. Not as bad an ending as Downtown Owl, which I read the same week, but seemed like a lot of people, some annoying and some not, were just killed off to tie off loose ends.
I thought the story itself was weak, but the author did make me regard the majority of her characters as people, so I will read some more of her works eventually just for that fact alone.
Helen
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