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Title: Dippy - Why Should I Believe This?
Review: If only this author had included a preface or afterward explaining the basis for her fiction. Did she read real letters? Were there really such botanical missions? The main character's coy use of initials to hide her gender is too cute as is her ability to rescue a man in a snowstorm. The men in the book are without exception pains in the neck. I wanted to like this, but I couldn't believe in it, or lose myself in it as I did in Andrea Barrett's books of the same style. For a real trip to the 19th century west, read "A Lady's Life in the Rockies."
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