Indigo sends wrong message

I got your email alerting me to the best books of 2008 from Indigo so I clicked through and picked Jospeh Boyden’s Through Black Spruce. After reading the gushy publishers blurb I stopped.”From internationally acclaimed author Joseph Boyden comes an astonishingly powerful novel of contemporary aboriginal life, full of the dangers and harsh beauty of both forest and city. When beautiful Suzanne Bird… ”

If the publisher is already over the top with their prose, what could one expect in the book? Certainly not understated writing?I passed since I already had a membership card in the Survivors’ and Oprah Over-The-Top book clubs.