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Title: Skip it. Flawed concept, bad execution.
Review: A light-weight book, more fluff than substance; it is the female equivalent of those horrible "adventure" books they give to boys who hate reading.A bubbly, naive girl is unwittingly scammed by a con man, his wife, and his vicious daughter: that's the plot in a sentence. The foreshadowing is so large and looming that we know the ending by the first third of the book. And the main characters? Cardboard shapes. Continuing with the cardboard metaphor, the fact that the author painted her shapes with gaudy colors does not improve the book.The events are implausible, the people one-dimensional and corny. Is this what I, a seventh-grader, am supposed to be reading? Thanks, but no thanks. I'd go for a "grown-up" book any time.In general: This book was a young adult verison of simpering chick-lit, and I would not recommend it at all.
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