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Book Review of Hannah's Dream

Hannah's Dream
Hannah's Dream
Author: Diane Hammond
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


Hannah's Dream has a great deal of potential as a novel. However, I felt the author's manuscript fell short of achieving what I consider to be a golden rule: tell me the story without loading it up with tropes and stereotypes. You can guess after the first twenty or so pages how will it all turn out. Yes, it's a "feel-good!" type of story. It runs on for far too long, including flashbacks to tell stories of many characters' backgrounds, which are supposed to serve as reasons for the way they behave as they do. In Harriet's case, I simply didn't buy it. A tidy ending further solidified the "It all works out in the end" type of ending.