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Title: I want a refund!
Review: As someone who has enjoyed all of Barbara Kingsolver's previous works, I was terribly disappointed with this novel. It was pulp romance meets Greenpeace, and if forest-service shirts were lace-ups, I would call it a bodice-ripper. The plot was predictable, the sex was smarmy, the relationships were sentimental, and the environmentalism was pedantic. The worst of all worlds. Kingsolver has always tended to fall into sentamentalism, but other aspects of her books have always made her novels worthwhile. This was just embarrassing.Next time she publishes a book, I'll get it from the library.
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