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The Removed by Brandon Hobson
3.0

I admire this ambitious book, but wish it had done a little more with a little less. The real Ray-Ray gets too few pages. His death is so far off stage, it's hard for the injustice and tragedy to sink in. Sonja and Maria are not well drawn, Ernest's Alzheimer's doesn't seem real. (At one point, Maria castigates herself for leaving someone with Alzheimer's alone. Well, yeah.) Wyatt seems to be a place holder. I did connect with Edgar and his journey through a hellscape/dreamscape home. That kept me going.