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Book Review of How the Light Gets In

How the Light Gets In
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The only kudos I have for this book is that MJ Hyland completed a novel. That said - I didn't much like the book, nor the story. The tone of the book didn't fit the location of the story. The MC is an exchange student from Australia who comes to live in the midwest, specifically, a suburb of Chicago. Here is where the whole story goes wrong. The dialogue is completely absurd. No one speaks this way in the midwest. The fictional family she comes to live with are cardboard. The MC is a needy girl who is already damaged. She expects her new family to send her to a sleep clinic. Nobody is every going to do this in real life. The MC is too quirky, boring and very irregular. She bored me to pieces. I struggled to finish the story and even that did not have a resolution. Disappointed.