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Title: A big disappointment....
Review: After reading Sue Monk Kidd's A Secret Life of Bees (which was wonderful) I was really looking forward to her next novel, The Mermaid Chair, because I thought it would be equally captivating. I was very let down. Maybe it was because the main character was a middle-aged woman who had a pretty good life and a great husband, but then falls in love with a monk and is enamoured with a chair. It's just weird, and I couldn't get into it. My recommendation: if you read Secret Life of Bees, don't follow it with this novel. If you haven't read Sue Monk Kidd's other novel, please go read it immediately...you don't know what you are missing.
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