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Title: Sit this one out, no pun intended.
Review: After reading "The Secret Life of Bees" and not particularily loving it, I decided to try Kidd's newer novel, figuring there has to be something to a bestseller. Boy, was I wrong. This was worse, far worse.Kidd's descriptions of the southeast coastline of the United States are the best things this book has to offer. The story is weak, the characters lack credibility, and it was torture getting to the end. Perhaps, if Kidd had focused on the storyline about the relationship Jessie, a middle-aged frustrated artist, had with her father when she was a young girl, I would have cared a bit more about what happened to them in the end. Kidd describes a scene where as a young girl Jessie's father peels an apple for her, leaving the peel intact, calling her his Whirly Girl and from this we're supposed to feel an undying love and connection that lasts a lifetime.Sit this one out, no pun intended.
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