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Title: Sue Monk Kidd Wrote This Beach Book????
Review: "The Secret Life of Bees" was an extraordinary book in every way, and I recommended it to and bought it for many, many friends. "The Mermaid Chair" surely was not written by the same author! What a vapid, one-dimensional potboiler! The heroine was a complete moron, apparently in a wife/mother coma after 20 years of marriage. The monk--well, what was so bloody irresistible about him other than his "denim" blue eyes? The poor husband, although also a caricature, held promise but was never developed into a real-enough person so I cared that much about him either. SAVE YOUR MONEY! This is a library beach book!
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