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Title: It's Deep Alright.....
Review: The quote on the front of my book says "Riveting..twists that will spin you around." I don't know who at Newsweek wrote that but I'm just an average Jane and not once was I "spun around" by something that happened. It was a very depressing book, not riveting. I picked it up and put it down several times, not really caring about the shallow, selfish characters and the only reason I even finished it was because it was the only book in my bag during a long plane ride.A child, Ben, is lost and found again after several years. The book goes through these years focusing on the mother (who doesn't seem to really love any of her children) and the older, tortured, brother who "told Ben to go away." This 447 page book could have easily been trimmed down to 150 pages for a better story.
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