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A Dangerous Woman
A Dangerous Woman
Author: Mary McGarry Morris
Martha Horgan is not like other women. She stares. She has violent crushes on people. She can't stop telling the truth. Martha craves love, independence, and companionship, but her relentless honesty makes her painfully vulnerable to those around her: Frances, her wealthy aunt and begrudging guardian; Birdy, who befriends her, then cruelly re...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780670836994
ISBN-10: 0670836990
Publication Date: 1/23/1991
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Viking Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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Helpful Score: 5
I really loved this book and got quite caught up in the story. As usual, with Mary McGarry Morris, you have a feeling that the author knows her characters very well in real life, and that the story is being dosed out in equal parts comedy and tragedy. I didn't want it to end, and I sure didn't want it to end like it did. A sequel would make the book totally anticlimactic, but I hate how she kept me wondering!
maranda avatar reviewed A Dangerous Woman on + 6 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
I just finished A Dangerous Woman by Mary McGarry Morris - wow, it was pretty fantastic. My 3rd McGarry Morris read and possibly my favorite, although it's close. Her book Songs in Ordinary Time was in Oprah's Book Club, which is how I originally found this author. If you've read and McGarry Morris in the past, I highly recommend this book, she's at her best!

A Dangerous Woman is based on small-town living for a 32-year-old woman with mental fixations, ticks, and behavioral problems - worsened by the fact that she's been tormented and cast as an outsider all her life. The depth of this character is incredible. You're taken on her ups and downs between her wealthy aunt's mansion living to the boarding house and back again, all the while she's fixated on the other people in her life in a very stalker-ish way. It's peculiar and definitely a page-turner, hard to put down.
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Helpful Score: 3
A different sort of story, but intriguing. It kept my attention reading into the night.
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Helpful Score: 3
Martha craves love, independence, and companionship, but her honestly makes her vulnerable to those around her: her aunt Francis, her friend, Birdy, and a seductive man, Colin. Martha is drawn into a desperate attempt to gain control over her own life.
bulldoglover22 avatar reviewed A Dangerous Woman on + 105 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I liked this book because it managed to keep my attention and interest, although I felt the ending could have been a little stronger. The main character is a girl who certainly has a great deal of emotional issues and quite socially inept. Unfortunately, this is a very common and realistic issue which gives this novel appeal.
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My sister and I red the same books and go off each other's suggestions. so, tho I did not read this, my sister did not care for it.


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