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Waking Raphael by Leslie Forbes

Waking Raphael

by Leslie Forbes
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  • First Published:
  • Jun 1, 2004, 430 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Apr 2005, 448 pages
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Erica Minchella

Waking Raphael
This book was a terrible disappointment. All that I had read about the book indicated that it would be a fascinating, complex, if not thrilling, story. Instead it was a great deal of allusion, innuendo and foreshadowing, leading to a climax that was insulting in its failure to deliver. Although the main characters were well-drawn, the characters thrown in to allude to the "secret" were confusing and contrived. The book was reminiscent of "A Thread of Grace" which was thoroughly worth reading.
Andre

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if you read this book you will be confused and bored. No thriller at all. More like a phonebook.
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