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Title: uninventive and for-girls-only
Review: I was extremely disappointed with this book, which has somehow achieved successful status with readers and booksellers alike. Not only is it both a precious and boring retelling of a story already told clearly and simply, it is an unfulfilled promise of an adventure story for much of the first half of the book, and an insipid, somewhat chauvinistic romance for much of the second. After two children turned their noses up at it saying that it was "boring and stupid", I thought that surely they must be wrong. After a quick read (more time than it deserved), I fully agree. A two-fisted "thumbs down".
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