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Title: a despicable main character
Review: Question for the author: Who are you and what have you done with the Sara Gruen who wrote "Water for Elephants"? Thank goodness I read the wonderful "Water for Elephants" first; I never would have picked it up if I had read this book first. This book was terrible! The heroine - and I use that word very loosely - Annemarie Zimmer is whiny, arrogant and selfish. She spends almost the entire novel wracked with sobs, dissolving into tears, on the verge of tears, shrieking, yelling or howling at someone and "sliding down the walls and convulsing in sobs on the floors". How many people do you know who actually slide down the walls in anguish anyway? Apparently men love women who do this because a couple men in the book are in hot pursuit of the miserable Annemarie! By the end of the book when our "heroine" finally gets her act together are we supposed to care at all? I didn't.
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