Title: I feel cheated...
Product review: I cannot get over just how disappointing this cloying, saccharine offering is. Can it really have come from the pen of the same man who gave us the magnificent 'Sophie's World'? It is the literary equivalent of watching 'The Sound of Music', or of listening to a toothily sweet Shirley Temple lisping her way through 'On the Good Ship Lollipop', and just as intellectually demanding.The 'storyline' is naive, the dialogue unreal and the characters totally unbelievable!Like a lot of readers, I suppose, I read it a chapter at a time in the run-up to Christmas, and even that became a chore. The whole thing is so disappointing that it has put me off reading any further works by what I took to be a new and significant writer.
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