Maureen O. (read4fun) reviewed on 10/22/2008 + 30 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 4

I really wanted to like this book more then I did. I initially picked it up after learning of the adversity the author went through in real life and the discovery of her manuscript years later. The book, however, left me feeling flat. There was such much description of the characters and setting yet still I felt something was left out. I usually love books that do not just read straight through begin to end of a single main character, but the bouncing back and forth in the first half of the book was hard to follow when the characters did not leave a strong enough impression for me to remember them later on. The second half of the book almost completely ignores the previous people that I kept wondering when would we go back to them. Then the book just ends. I'm still glad I read it but I it left me unsettled, not deep in thought, but emptied.

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