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Title: A rush to publish on the shirt-tail of Secret Life of Bees???
Review: I bought this book just because I loved Monk Kidd's SECRET LIFE OF BEES, a beautifully crafted book, and knew this was an author I wanted to follow. What a letdown! I was rolling my eyes as I read thinking, oh please! The plot, unlike SECRET, is paper thin, poorly developed, thus, barely believable. While I can relate to Jessie's midlife crisis, nothing that actually happened is credible or understandable. The shifts to the mind of the monk and later the husband were a disjointing and rather ineffective technique--nothing was accomplished and I ended up understanding none of the characters. I cannot believe the editors actually let this book go to print as is, and I cannot believe Monk Kidd would stoop to publishing a harlequin romance.
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