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Title: Too repetitious and too long.
Review: I love stories that take place over several generations, so I was prepared to like this book. The first half was OK, but the second half started to drag. By the last 100 pages I was speed reading just to get it over with. I like strong women characters who stand up for themselves, but Rachel, Doris and Lillian, the daughters of the awful Sara, took verbal abuse all though their childhood, and still kow-towed to Sara to the point I started skipping the same old dialogue over and over. Sara was one of the most unlikable charactors I've ever encountered in a novel like this. The book was repetitious in that each generation went thru the same thing, so if you read one generation's trials and woes, you could skip the rest and use your imagination.
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