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Title: Beautiful Background, Frustrating Story.
Review: I so wanted to love this book. And I tried. But try as I might, and as beautifully written as it was, I could not identify with the characters. We are given only the tiniest glimpse of the first encounter between a young woman and a cold male doctor, and from this un-rememberable encounter, we are supposed to believe that they are so wildly obsessed with each other that nothing can keep them apart. And yet - the doctor yells at the girl, insults her, chases her away - but feels sorry later, and tells his friend that he cannot be happy without her. And she - somehow presses on (and on, and on) in spite of his frightfully ugly spirit. If only their first encounter had been passionate or even exciting (!) I would have been able to believe the rest.
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