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Book Review of The Help

The Help
The Help
Author: Kathryn Stockett
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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This is well-written, and a pleasure to read. The story starts just a little slowly but in no time you're sucked in, reluctant to put it down to go to bed or go to work. The hype of the movie made some parts of the book seem sluggish, but in reality the story needs to be deep, in order to be satisfying. The characters are well-formed and believable. Even when you don't want to find a character sympathetic, at the end you want to know more about how the children turned out, and what happened to each woman.