A work of implausible anatomical assertions and insertions, Duncan Ralston's "Woom" had this reader scratching his head and reaching for the institutional hand sanitizer. Perhaps in this mess of shock and shlock there is a point … somewhere, but meaningfulness seems woefully absent from this gratuitous and hastily written tome.
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Mack Devlin
Writer, educator, and follower of Christ. Passionate about social justice. Living with a disability has taught me that knowledge is strength.
We are curators of emotions, explorers of the human psyche, and custodians of the narrative.
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Great review!