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Title: An After-thought?
Review: Having read & thoroughly enjoyed the first five Mitford novels, I was anxiously awaiting book six. A Common Life is disappointing & certainly not up to Jan Karon's usual quality writing.The fact that it is out of sequence makes me feel it was an after-thought or that it was hastily written in response to readers' disappointment with lack of detailed information about Fr. Tim & Cynthia's actual wedding. Whatever the motivation, the story lacks character development, plot, & substance.If read at all, it should be read BEFORE book five!That being said...I will definitely buy In This Mountain, the seventh in the Mitford series.
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