Title: Don't Bother
Product review: Dunmore writes to impress and fails. I was surprised to find she'd won a prestigious award for a novel so transparent in its plot and characters. Her prose is laboriously and contrivedly clever, not a thing I admire. The only parts I found worth the time spent reading them were the descriptions of the garden and the flashbacks and dreams. Her take on sibling interactions seemed a realistic one to me, though the lengths to which she took them did not. In the end, it wasn't really worth the reading. If I hadn't bought the hardcover in a fit of extravagance one day, I would never have finished it.
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