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Title: Somewhat dissapointing
Review: Quentins is not your typical Maeve Binchy book. Though I enjoyed parts of this novel, I finished reading it on a dissapointing note. In Quentins, we re-connect with old characters from other novels, like Simon and Maude from Scarlet Feather. What made this novel dissapointing to me was all the space Binchy spent re-acquianting the reader with these old characters. Instead Binchy could well have used the space to develop her new characters to a greater degree. I felt often enough that I couldn't connect personally with the protagonist, Ella Brady, with all the other reminders going on. It was like watching one of those sitcoms where the actors sit and reminisce about times gone by, when all you really wanted to see was the next episode. Instead of trying to draw on our nostalgia for characters in other novels, Binchy should have attempted to write a novel that we could be nostalgic about in the first place.
