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Title: Victorian melodrama in a sari
Review: In the typical Victorian potboiler, the bad temptress repents, rejects her sexuality and ends up either dead, or humbled and living in a convent. Fast forward to the United States in the present-day and you have The Vine of Desire. This novel features stock characters (with an Indian patina) and a cliched plot. The writing alternately gushes and stammers. The female characters have three dimensional moments but the male characters are one-dimensional cardboard.
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