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Title: Too trite for words
Review: The author has discovered all the ingredients for success -- make it short, use the same cliches over and over, refrain from developing any depth to the characters, provide no insight to the characters' personalities, skip opportunities for conflict, develop no character flaws. I never felt as if I really knew Allie or Noah. There was no develpment of Allie, what she'd been doing during the 14 years since she'd last seen Noah. To justify her seeking out Noah, she simply says over and over again, "I was just wondering what you'd been up to." Please! These characters sound cardboard with dialogue that could have been written for a grade school paper entitled "What I did during my summer vacation."
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