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Title: Saw it coming from a mile away
Review: The writing about CA is beautiful. BUT...Although I've gotten through a fair amount of this book so far, I've actually started skipping through the chapters to see if what I thought would happen would. Ray, Clair, knew it. Let's see, murder, underage sex, beautiful of course, shootings, mauled by dogs, suicide. What next, kidnapped by terrorists? White slavery?. Pretentious Ingrid to make us take it seriously. Huge plotpoints with minimal impact on the characters, little meaning. Would work better as soap opera or Jackie Collins; there wouldn't be the assumption that this is "literature." You have to wonder about publishing criteria. This story has been told a dozen times lately, Bastard out of Carolina, Liars Club, etc. even The Color Purple 20 years ago (MUCH BETTER)
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