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    <body><![CDATA[This was quite a haunting book; one of the few adult novels I've forayed into.  The characters and relationships were very well done and well narrated though, and the story stayed with me a long time. <br/><br/><em>The Sisters Mortland</em> is the story of, what else, three sisters, living in an abandoned ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58684527">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to really love this book. The book summary set the stage for a novel I would really enjoy, alluding to a dark family tragedy that compounds already complicated relationships. I expected a careful interweaving of events and people - a book that was haunting in its complexity, a bit like Etha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25663698">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent writer!  Some aspects of the story didn't sit well with me, but the book helped me to deal with some personal struggles.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Having just re-read REBECCA'S TALE, I finally picked this up--and was delighted.  Wonderful, wonderful stuff.  Sumptuous.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[At a certain point in this book I had to accept that I wasn't going to receive the answers I was hoping for. I found that frustrating but strangely cathartic. This book is life (although, I will agree with another reviewer who stated that an event in the last 100 pages was a bit too extraordinary) a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31417160">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[At first I was into it, with mazie as the storyteller. As soon as it changed to a male viewpoint, I lost interest. It picked up again and had some surprising twists. The ending folded it up nicely. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very interesting book, but I was not that taken with it. The story is hearwrenching and there is no happy ending here. The writing style is interesting, you start with one narrator, hope through time, get another narrator, and slowly peel back the layers of what happened that summer. I am...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34267159">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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