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Title: Big Choices Made & Secrets Revealed
Review: 40ish Jessie is summoned home when her mother hacks off her finger with a cleaver. So, Jessie returns to the small island off of SC, where her mother lives, next to a monastery. This is one of the few books I felt like I knew the characters, after I was done reading. I think I would recognize Jessie, Kat, Whit, or Hugh, if I were to see them on the street. Nice handling of flashbacks: not the bumbling clunky chunks of narrative that usually pass for flashbacks. I wish the epilogue had been left out, though. The author should leave us hungry for more, not just keep on hammering on that last point!
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