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Title: A Literary Soap Opera
Review: While this book is a compelling and well written read, it should be produced as a ABC movie of the week or on daytime TV. This book is melodrama in pure form. The author also gives the protagonist 20th-century thoughts in a 19th-century world. Una is not written for her time, but for our time. The author name drops famous people into the story, which serves the author's research well but tended to annoy me. It is highly unlikely she would meet Nathanial Hawthorne Margaret Mead or Maria Mitchell. But the worst fault of the books is that Una never has any flaws and unfortunately never develops as a character. I found myself wanting to finish the book but unsatisfied when I finished. There are better books to spend 600+ pages on.
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