Solomon is too narrowly focused on reiterating the depth and 'inevitability' of pain to make good on this propulsive setup ... The reader can allow only so much ornamentation before the actual suffering loses resonance ... Solomon, like Ezri, has let fatalism get the better of them, the gravity of their subject matter luring them to write an overwrought cautionary parable. The character at the center gets lost in the ambition.
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