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Title: Like a slush-filled New England Winter
Review: This novel -- promoted as a "coming-of-age" story of a midwestern girl in an east coast boarding school -- could have been fabulous. It's obvious that the author can write, and she has some great insights into human nature of the teenage kind. But the overall storyline was disjointed, the main character wishy-washy and unappealing, and the sex gratuitous. Too much started to go on while nothing of any real substance happened. Lots of observations about the school and students, but the main character, Lee, was somehow unable to turn that same insight to herself. I found her unbelievable, and, frankly, unlikeable. A dull read -- like slogging through a slush-filled New England February.
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