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Title: Wish I Hadn't Bought It!
Review: The book jacket says it all, a car and old fashioned porch out of focus, blurry and hard to look at for any length of time. This novel is the same way, out of focus. It sounded like it would be an interesting read. Murder. A Stolen baby. Hiding out in lush, humid Galveston. The character never came to life--Lottie, Lettie? See, I can't even remember her name. There's some pretty writing here, but I couldn't enjoy the book for the distance. Also I had trouble understanding why Lettie would perform an autopsy on her own sister. It seemed cold and gruesome. Next I couldn't understand why Lettie took her sister's baby and left town, making her escape seem like an abduction. It didn't ring true and I felt even more distanced from Lettie because I couldn't understand how her mind worked.
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