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Title: Chick-Lit Style Writing about Child Abuse--Blech!
Review: The subject of this rather poorly- written novel is the sexual abuse of a child... Which, by the way, is not even hinted at on the book jacket. The descriptions of this abuse were, I thought, overly detailed-- almost too lurid. I had the sense that the author wanted to write a story about a family with a real skeleton in the closet, so she wracked her brain to find the most disturbing possible thing. I'm not averse to reading about terrible things... Many great pieces of literature deal with heart-breaking subjects, of course, but do so in a sensitive, moving way that leaves the reader richer for having experienced it. But in this case, this trite and disturbing book wasn't sensitive or emotionally powerful; it was just chick-lit style writing with a plot centered on child abuse. Blech.
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