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Title: A poorly written work with unbelievable premise
Review: In the first few pages I thought I might like this Oprah recommendation. The writing seemed to be imaginative and the study of cultural differences had promise. It was a promise never fulfilled. The book soon disintegrated into redundancy, with the same descriptive phrases being repeated again and again as though the author couldn't think of any other way to describe a person or scene. The book is filled with graphic, coarsely written sexual scenes which add nothing to the story and seem to be added for purient purposes. The characters are unsympathetic and the premise for the plot is unrealistic to the extreme.What could have been an interesting study of cultures in conflict absolutely missed the target.
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