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Title: Marta Hari
Review: The blurb on the back cover is enticing enough. Although quite misrepresentational of the plot. You expect one thing and get another. A novel attempting to fit into the literary genre by being 'different'. If intense unhealthily co-dependant relationships bordering on psychosis are your thing, buy it now. If you're looking for a love story that will tug at your romantic heartstrings - forget it. I read the book from cover to cover in the hope the end would justify the means of having to wade through a depressing relationship clearly destined for tragedy. The violent and even more depressing ending did not justify the means. I consider it sacrilege to burn any book, but I'd make an exception in this case. Why have the words 'literary' and 'entertaining' become so mutually exlusive?
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