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Title: Not as good as her first...
Review: I really enjoyed The Secret Life of Bees and was hoping to like this one as well. This book left me WAAAAY wishing I hadn't read it.Let's just start by saying the main character, Jessie, is a middle aged woman. I just can't bring myself to think of the name Jessie as that belonging to a middle aged woman. Perhaps that's just me? But Jessie has the perfect life... a gorgeous house, great daughter, handsome, caring husband. And yet she finds that she has lost "herself"? It just doesn't seem plausible to me.So she has a crazy mother, who is barely described and you just can't even come up with a mental picture of her. There's a slight backstory about Jessie's issues with her fathers death but only the surface is really touched upon and it doesn't give our heroine the backstory the book needs.This one just really fell short for me. I won't go into huge detail cause I don't want to spoil it if you are wanting this book. But for me it fell dramatically short of my expectations.
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