Title: a waste of time and money
Product review: I read about one novel a week, and I can read virtually any genre, including magic realism. A book has to be pretty bad for me to put it down. Actually, I did not put this one down, I threw it across the room after reading a scene where the leading couple is in the elephant cage at the zoo and a group of children take the trunk of the baby elephant and pull it through the bars until its head pops and the elephant dies. The book does not have this violent tone up until this point (which is about 3/4ths of the way through), and this scene seems to pop up out of nowhere. I was slogging along trying to involve myself in the plot (which is weak), and I just couldn't take any more. I do not recommend this book, even as a loaner from the library.
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