Title: What's up with all those five star reviews?
Product review: I bought this book on the basis of all those five star reviews. I kept reading thinking, "certainly, just any minute, any page I'm going to get why people seem to have liked this book." But no, page after page and I never got it. The people were unpleasant, shallow and drawn with cartoonish simplicity. The story hopped from decade to decade and was not well developed in any decade. The characters did not speak as much as they were described and the use of drippy, syrupy, damp, shimmering adjectives was cloying at best. The main character constantly "just knew" when something was about to happen, or had happened(in theory unbeknownst to her)--a device which quickly grew tiresome. I don't think any review could make me want to read another book by this author.
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