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Title: Saccharine
Review: I'm with chilirlw. Not only is the hyperbole about Sara's magnetism tiresome, it's also cloying. I'm an LMM fan and have read almost all her books except the 'Sara' ones. I've always found her tales nostalgic and innocent but always on the right side of sentiment-not overdone. Here the sugar turns saccharine. The Story Girl, with her improbable nickname, mouths such unlikely gems as, "Where are you, children?" when trying to find her best friends. I highly doubt evev children of the time referred to each other as "children." Dialogue is stilted and weird. The constant stories of the eponymous girl are tiresome and interrupt the flow of the main storyline, such as it is. Read Anne or Emily or Pat over and over again and save youself from this one.
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