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Title: Dissapointing
Review: Boy, I sure expected a lot more from this book because The Secret Life of Bees was so well done. All the elements were in place for The Mermaid Chair to be just as rich, but instead, I was bored to tears with the one-dimensional charectors and embarrasing-to-read romance. (I'll take the Thorn Birds anyday).The mythological elements were also not explored to the degree that I hoped. What happened? She certainly knows how to turn a phrase and her descriptions of the natural world of the island were beautiful, however, I never warmed up to any of the people, not even the main charector, and toward the end, I felt like I was being forced to read journal entries of someone with meager insight into life. Bummer.
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