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Title: Ick.
Review: I rarely return a book to the library without finishing it but this was one of those. I found the main character to be self-absorbed, narcissistic and lacking in character. What kind of person commits adultery with a monk she's known for about 2 minutes? I just didn't like her enough to want to know anything about her and I found her constant self-analysis to be self-serving and tedious. I finally skipped to the end to see what happened and didn't even care enough about her to want to flip back a few pages and figure out how her father really died. The stuff about her mother cutting off her own finger I just found to be contrived and gratuitous.
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