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Title: Disappointed
Review: My first inclinations on reading this book were wonderful. It takes a skilled storyteller to walk a reader through a protagonist's day, moment by moment, and maintain interest. The minutae in the first chapters were great. But where was the plot?I stopped midway through the book and set it aside.A month later I tried again from the beginning, thinking perhaps I'd lost some thread that would impel the story forward. Again I stopped as the story lagged. The interminable letters wore down my patience to translate the formal language of letters into something that mattered to me. There was no cohesion to the events, no central reason for moving on.It is a real pity. The author has proved over and over that her storytelling skills are topnotch. This book has become a chore, though, and I have enough chores in my life already. I will not buy the next. If it reviews better I will borrow it to read.
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