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Title: Deep disappointment
Review: Several friends recommended this novel, so I read it. I was impressed by the extent of Brooks's research and the apparent authenticity of the setting. But I found the novel shockingly trashy. Not only is it over-written in a flowery, gushing style, but Brooks threw in an excess of grotesque, sadistic and gratuitiously violent events beyond her graphic descriptions of plague sufferings. You name it, it's in there, from witch lynching to a near-crucifixion, to madness, to abortion by hot poker, to child abuse, to countless other horrors. Then, the ending trumps every soap opera imaginable.Yuck.
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