** OK **
No shine, A little bit tarnished
I didn't care for it. Having loved Scrubland I was looking forward to a great Aussie pageturner set in my neck of the woods. I found the sense of location very forced; the plotline was very muddy. The relationship between the two main characters was tediously angsty. In fact, all relationships seemed to be tediously angsty. There were too many characters who all needed their own backstory but were superfluous to the plot. Some seemed to be there so that there could be expositionary conversations to lead the plot along.
