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Title: An Unbelievably Contrived Story
Review: Ms. Llywely's novel about the Easter Rising is an embarrassment to this pivotal event in Irish history. While her historical research is solid (and documents with brief footnotes), the story itself is contrived--full of cardboard characters who seemingly pop up at every important event during the period in question. The book itself amounts to little more than a soap opera, and a badly written one at that.
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