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Title: No feeling of truth in any aspect
Review: I do agree with all those who say the book was a thinly veiled pulp romance whose main character had no substance. But even worse for me was the fakeness of the description of the South Carolina coast - or rather, it felt as if it were a description from the viewpoint of a tourist looking at the scenery from within an airconditioned bus. For instance - the memory of the father taking his kids to see the time between ebb and flood - any other islander knows that from before they can remember. And somehow the leaving out of the immense amounts of insects and humidity left me wondering how the author could possibly live in a house on the edge of marsh. I bought the book for that description (not the insects per se, but the essence) - and finished it wishing that someone else would write the book I'm still looking for.
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