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Title: obviously not by the same hand
Review: I set out to read all the books in order during the hot weeks of July. Really enjoyed all the others having read them many years ago. Just a few pages in, I could tell the book was not written by the same hand. Too many cliches in the text. Laura didn't write like that. The richness of the descriptions was missing. Laura never complained so much about work in all the other books combined!! After a few more pages, I googled the book and saw that it was published after Laura's death!!! Not sure why the publishers list Laura as the author. It might be based on Laura's diary, but the voice is in no way Laura's. A guess would be an unknown writer used the short blurbs in the diary as the story outline. A question would be why the diary wasn't destroyed when the house burned??? It would not be the item laura would try to save. It reads like a mediocre children's fiction series written in the 1950's. I am not sure if I will even finish it. what a shame........
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