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2.0

I expected better. I put it down to two things. The first one is Philadelphia. It sucks. I mean, in real life. But also in this book, because it's agonizingly clear that Johnson can't write it the way he writes Wyoming. There's no sense of place, which is really what made me fall in love with the series. And things that would seem perfectly reasonable in Wyoming are absurd in a real city. The cast of characters just feels...shoehorned.

Secondly, it's the coma. Uggggggh, the coma. There is nothing more grating in the world than comas with convenient dramatic pauses and codas. They're just the worst, okay? Everyone needs to stop using them as narrative devices. This is not One Tree Hill.