A very bit disappointment after Water for Elephants. While Gruen's writing style is still quite open and engaging (hence I finished the book), the story itself was somehow unusual and cliché. Essentially, she tells the story of apes from a language lab who are kidnapped and made to perform on a reality television program. Unusual, right? However, the characters just seem so "stock". The beautiful, insecure wife; the doting husband, the evil villain, the journalist who will do it all for a story etc., etc.
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