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Title: Mediocre From a Talented Writer
Review: I really like this author and have read a lot of her other work. However, this novel was a disappointment: the heroine is insipid and passive (she's the daughter of a famous novelist with a cult following but it never even occurs to her to wonder why she and the grandparents who raised her don't have any money from her mother's work?) and the subplot about the raised riverboat is too factual to really serve as a plot point for character growth. The timing of the events at the end also felt really rushed and contrived. IMHO, the relatively minor "father" character was the best one in the book.Take my advice and read _Summer's End_ by this author instead (highly recommended), or _More Than You Dreamed_, or _Again_.
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