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Review title: Should win the Deadful-Book-of-the-Year Award
Product review: Holy Scott! After being convinced to read this book by the positive reviews, I expected it to have at least some literary promise. Instead, I find ridiculous dialogue, a protagonist who is totally unforgettable, and a potentially promising plot that wasn't fleshed out in an interesting way. Nothing this protagonist does or says rings true; she's schizoid and odd, but not in a compelling way. Only in an insipid way. And the episodes she encounters, (e.g. the bleeding cut to her head that necessitated a doctor visit, while chatting aimlessly with the mother of her babysitting charge) were totally uninteresting. I could handle all that, but the insult that added to this injury of a book is that the prose could have been written by a high school freshman. I would have liked Anita Shreve to have taken this story and done something marvelous with it.
