Title: one word: contrived
Product review: I'm not quite done with this book yet, but I felt like writing a review anyway. I like the flashbacks with the stories about the Ya-Yas' childhood and Sidda's childhood, but this whole scrapbook thing has got to be the most contrived way to get to these flashbacks that I could ever imagine. I find myself skimming over the parts in the present, with Sidda at the cabin, because they just seem like filler the author put in to get us from one flashback to the next. I thought I would race through this book, but instead I'm crawling through it, because each time I get to a "Sidda" part, I just get fed up with her silliness and bored with her thoughts. I haven't given up on "Divine Secrets" yet, but it's certainly slow going.
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