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Title: Disappointing after Poisonwood Bible
Review: I really wanted to like this book. Her descriptions of nature were great. But to me it seemed that her words were merged with the words of a trashy dime store romance. "Cole made love like a farmer...he had a fine intelligence that drove him toward earthy scents, seeking out with his furred mouth, her soft, damp places, turning her like fresh earth toward the glory of new growth. Her body,...became something new in the embrace of a man who judged breeding animals with his hands..." I did not find the characters behaved in ways consistant with what an actual person would. To live alone for several years in the forrest, meet someone alone in the woods, barely know their name, and then fall into bed with them, is beyond belief. A good story is ruined by badly written sex scenes.
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