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A review by mjfmjfmjf
Charisma by Steven Barnes
3.0
I was wandering the sf section just browsing when I turned this one up. I've picked up Barnes only books before and not found one I wanted to read but this when had something to it. And yet I put off reading it for three months.
First of all it's on that line between thriller and horror, but with a vaguely [b:The Boys from Brazil|99894|The Boys from Brazil|Ira Levin|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328882615s/99894.jpg|815712] vibe. And the author has this uncanny way of selling you a character and then killing them. And the ideas, which were there and good, just weren't served up quite the way I wanted them to be. In one bit there was a couple of pages of straight info-dumping.
That said, it was a good strong read and definitely creepifying. Not sure if it was worth reading but definitely not a waste of time. 3.5 of 5.
First of all it's on that line between thriller and horror, but with a vaguely [b:The Boys from Brazil|99894|The Boys from Brazil|Ira Levin|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328882615s/99894.jpg|815712] vibe. And the author has this uncanny way of selling you a character and then killing them. And the ideas, which were there and good, just weren't served up quite the way I wanted them to be. In one bit there was a couple of pages of straight info-dumping.
That said, it was a good strong read and definitely creepifying. Not sure if it was worth reading but definitely not a waste of time. 3.5 of 5.