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Title: An inspiration for budding novelists everywhere
Review: Although it was a total piece of trash, this book did have one redeeming quality. It made me realize that if junk like this can get published, certainly I can write something publishable! The "lyric" writing was forced and annoying, the similes way overdone, and the situations improbable and ridiculous. I have to admit I enjoyed the first couple of chapters about Astrid and her mother, when their life was normal but pleasantly quirky. But then some murder, sexual abuse, and shootings were thrown in for obvious shock value and the book just went downhill from there. Oprah, what were you thinking? This was possibly her most ridiculous selection yet, and I've read "Back Roads."
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