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livrad 's review for:
Sweet Tooth
by Ian McEwan
In this book about MI5 in the early 1970s, I wasn't exactly expecting Ian Flemming or John le Carré, but this definitely was not a Cold War-era spy thriller. It was more like watching paint dry at the Kremlin. Instead of espionage-laced twists and turns, it was like sitting in on a committee meeting at MI5 where they were discussing pension plan options, but that might even have more action or plot than this book actually contained. In his other works, Ian McEwan has so much talent, so I don't know why this was so very underwhelming.