I'd read some good reports on Absolute Power
and got a reserve at the library.  I couldn't last
longer than a chapter and a half.  Maybe the story
was "riveting" but the writing was so dreadful.
A major complaint (but not the only one) the
main character didn't do a whole lot; his body
parts did.  
"His muscular arms grasped her limb..."
"His eyes roved around the crowded room"
(mental picture of two eyes scurrying around the
room like mice)
"His ears caught the sound of the door opening."
YUK!
Why not say, He grabbed her leg.  He looked around the room,
He heard the door open.
Maybe, in fact, =probably= it seemed worse than it
was because I'd just reread a Gail Godwin.  She writes with
such grace.
Lynn
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