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Title: Mary, quite contrary ?
Review: I've given up trying to read this book. Like everyone else, I started with the wonderful 'The Beekeeper's Apprenctice' and am trying to read my way through the rest of the series, but none of the others have matched BA so far. And this one is just so bad, after struggling my way at the rate of 1/2 pages per day (v. rare for me I can tell you), I've now given it up as hopeless. I think the worst for me is to see Mary become the total antithesis of what she started out as - I think some reviewers here described her as a shrew, and a more apt expression couldnt be found. Most of the fun, in reading these pastiches was, alongside Holmes, to have the development of Mary into the wonderful character she was in the first and second books. I'm so disappointed with this, and even though O Jerusalem has good reviews I might take a break before getting back to the Russell series again.
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