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Book Review of The Secret of Lost Things

The Secret of Lost Things
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Liked the premise of this novel but I thought it was a bit shallow in character development. Rosemary is gullible and misled in so many ways I couldn't help wondering of she could be a real person. Guess not. She is all fiction! Her sensitivity to others seemed excessive.

The most interesting part was the search for the lost novel of Herman Melville called The Isle of the Cross. Would have enjoyed seeing that aspect developed more fully. Certainly the correspondence between Melville and Hawthorne was fascinating.