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Title: Horrible Characters, Cheap Plot
Review: I've read a lot of Alice Hoffman. Her characters are usually real people, with flaws and beauty. This woman though, this main character March, is an utter unfeeling idiot. There really isn't anything redeemable about her. Sure she doesn't end up with the one-dimensional psychopath she professes to have a deep love for, which is you know, great, but the only REAL reason is that he dies.The plot itself is, as the author admits, a takeoff of Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Fine. Okay. Wuthering Heights is about a complicated relationship between two tragic people. This relationship? Is about two sort of stock characters with little to no depth and their pretty simple relationship of abuser and victim.The book basically makes no sense and you hate the characters.The only redeeming part is that the language and imagery is nice, as per usual.Ms. Hoffman really did herself a disfavor with this one.
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