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Title: The best part of this book is the cover
Review: The best part of this book is the cover. I am so disappointed. I cannot believe this is by the same author who wrote The Secret Life of Bees which is marvelous and moving. This might be her sophomore effort, but sophomoric is more appropriate a description.I found the writing clunky and her protagonist unlikeable. The husband is a sympathetic character and yet Kidd tries to manipulate the reader into rooting for Jessie to have an affair with a soon-to-be priest. I don't care if fictitious characters have moral failings, without them most books would have no plot, but this was just poor all the way around. Terrible, terrible characterizations and descriptions. Everything was contrived and forced--like a good writer trying too hard.
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