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Title: disappointing
Review: I love Susan Elizabeth Phillips, and was very excited to pick up her newest. Except that it's not new. "Just Imagine" is a reworking of an earlier novel, set in the South after the Civil War. In her preface, she explains that she had fun working again with an un-PC setting, but sorry, even with black characters with brains and ambition, I can't get around the fact that I'm supposed to cheer for a main character who owned slaves and who would have gone on owning slaves had not war intervened. The heroine, although "plucky," is a spoiled brat and and a little too much like Scarlett O'Hara for me to bond with her. Especially after reading her contemporary romances, I remained unmoved by the heroine, the situation, and the love affair.My suggestion? Buy the book used or take out of your library.
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