Waking Beauty

Paul Witcover

After three long months of wrestling with this monstrosity, I finally gave up. "Ponderous" is the best word to describe Witcover's style, which plods along with no consideration for the reader whatsoever, and little more for the characters therein. Things happen to the characters, all of which are described in lush detail, but somehow the detail never manages to convey any emotion whatsoever. If you've managed to learn to care about what happens to anyone in this book within the first fifty pages, you're doing a whole lot better than I did. And it never gets better.