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Title: Awful, just awful
Review: I suppose it would do to contrive allusions to mythology to make my disdain for this novel resonate with the same tone as the novel itself, but instead I will simply urge you to avoid this Drabble. It is dreadful. Dull, obvious, mean, depressing, time-wasting. I abandoned the Red Queen halfway through and felt guilty, so stayed with this one to the end. A sadly wasted afternoon. I am all for writers making an attempt at something different, but this? No. Why would anyone want to listen to the voice of a bitter woman whine to herself? Characters should come out of a novel changed, for good or ill. At the close, Candida still whines, just waits and whines, although at the end she enjoys knitting. Really? When the best thing to happen to a heroine is that she learns to purl on Finnish wool, you know it's a snooze of a book. Skip it.
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