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Title: Boooor...ooooo...ing...And that's the good part!
Review: I adore Philippa Gregory's novels and was thrilled to discover one I hadn't read yet when I received my Kindle for Christmas. It was the first thing I ordered! However, it proved to be a huge disappointment: totally lacking in the character development and sense of era recreation that I feel most of us look forward to in her work. Her characters are flat and very one-dimensional and therefore difficult to become involved with or care about. It's as though the author is reporting in print what is being seen through a video recorder set above her characters rather than taking the reader into the action. Dialogue is stilted. And WHAT is going on with that final plot twist that ends the novel? It was almost like the classic ending from the "Michael O'Donahue's (SNL Writer) School of How to Write Good" satire.."Suddenly, everyone is run over by a truck." I was very unhappy I wasted my money.
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