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Review title: Wanted to like this more
Product review: Cheryl Mendelson scored a major hit with "Home Comforts," her guide to 21st Century housekeeping. She combined elements of Miss Manners, Erma Bombeck, and Martha.I had high hopes for "Morninside Heights."The setting is perfect, but..the pace is deliberate to the point of plodding. The characters did not engage me.I had hoped that this would be a quirky, lovable book, like the late Laurie Colwin wrote. Colwin wrote about New York and New Yorkers also, and did it better. Some of Colwin's titles include "Family Happiness," "Goodbye Without Leaving," and "Another Marvelous Thing."In "Morningside Heights," there is a predictable subplot about a corrupt attorney. This subplot ends in a "virtue rewarded, evil vanquished" manner.The jacket flap states that this is the first of a trilogy. I hope that Mendelson, who can write very precisely, can make her characters more appealing.If there were half star ratings here, I would give this book two and a half stars.
