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Title: A Painfully Embarrasing Debut Novel
Review: I'm embarassed for the author.The "doctor" here works for a Catholic hospital and performs abortions on the weekends at a clinic. Hmm what's wrong with that picture? He's "noble" and the whole Catholic hospital community is wrong....so the author would make it seem. Maybe if a doctor feels OK about doing abortions he shouldn't work at a Catholic hospital, but then Brundage would have no book to write.As usual in recent chick lit, ALL the pro-life characters are amoral, psychotics and because of that all the pro-choice characters need not believe God exists. What tripe.The characterizations of "the perfect preppy life" are sweeter than syrup.Brundage's similies/metaphors are senseless and sometimes even comical.The whole plot is too contrived to be remotely plausible.It oozes the author's unearned satisfacton with her own inadequate work.In short, this is trashy plane trip reading if you absolutely can't sleep and have a free, used copy.
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