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Title: Trite, obvious, overdone potboiler
Review: I recently listened to the cassette abridgement, and hadn't listened to much before I was saying to myself "Wow, this is a bad book." The story is incredibly obvious (I could have predicted most of it after the first few minutes), the dialogue is completely unbelievable (I didn't for a minute think that people actually talked like that), the structure was clumsy, and people seemed to exist only to make a point (e.g. the niece). I didn't much like any of the characters, or believe in them for that matter. I don't know if it's the fault of the abridgement or if the novel is like that, but I think I'll skip her books from now on.
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