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Title: Made-for-TV-movie written all over it!
Review: Any reviewers with favorable comments about this book are just being kind and not truthful. Brundage poorly develops her characters and you are left not caring what happens to a single one of them. And we have every conceivable attention-grabber thrown into the mix - sex, drugs, abortion, religious cults, adultery, suburban boredom - Brundage must have feared that if she didn't throw in something for every taste some readers wouldn't finish her book. The result is so over-the-top that the "cataclysmic intersection of...lives" described on the back cover becomes an absolute train wreck for the novel as a whole. And the culminating scene in the farmhouse is so anticlimatic and predictable and poorly written, it was like watching a bad for-TV-movie. I live in the locale that is the setting for the book and can't even take satisfaction in that. Sorry, even cutting the author some slack for it being a debut novel, it is a total waste of time.
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