Title: Meh
Product review: I finally got around to reading this the other day. The writing isn't bad, and it held my interest to the end, but never once did I get the feeling that the heroine was actually 13 years old - she reads as if she's a very naive 16, then makes an abrupt leap to being about 20 in certain passages. Even worse, she doesn't act like a child who was raised in an abusive and patriarchal environment. Oh, we're *told*, more than once, that her guardedness is a problem and she'll need special help, but we're never *shown* it, nor is there much evidence that Talia's teachers and mentors are doing much about it, with once exception.I'm sure I would feel differently if I'd read this when I was a lonely teenager, but as an adult? *meh*
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