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Title: No More Shreve For Me
Review: I was looking forward to reading this latest novel of Anita Shreves. I loved Strange Fits of Passion, but this story doesn't even come close to that. As other reviewers here have said, it took a while to become involved in the story line, and the chapters that took place in Africa were sometimes grueling to get through. But, because I liked Linda and Thomas I plowed through the boring parts expecting the book to have a plausable ending (who would have thought it wouldn't?). The ending was, to say the least, a shock, and not at all plausable. I also agree with a reviewer here who stated that this was a "mean trick to play on the reader". Was that Shreve's purpose? Did she want to have readers sit staring at the last page totally dumbfounded. Like another of the reviewers, I am also a mental health professional, and I have to ask myself, why would an well-loved author play a nasty trick like this?
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