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    <body><![CDATA[This book starts out with a fascinating plot which drove me to the bitter and very disappointing end.  The heroine who begins by being noble, serving, and independent turns into a deplorable complainer.  I would flip through pages of her rants and way over-the-top drama.  I got sick of reading about...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49400052">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Novel was predictable and elementary - good for a quick read. But it was like Nora Roberts set in India and Nora Roberts is a better writer. Disappointed in this novel - I was really expecting more depth from the author given the subject matter. The characters were flat and I didnt feel like I could...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77818381">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Isha and her husband, Nikhil Tilak live in India. They are pregnant with their second child. While at Isha's doctor's visit with her OB/GYN, Dr. Karnik; Isha and Nikhil learn they will be having a daughter. Isha and Nikhil are happy but Nikhal's parents are not. In fact they want Isha to have an abo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27559983">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I would have given this book 3 1/2 stars if I could. It was a quick read, but I looked forward to reading it every time I picked it up. Deals with the subjects of selective female abortions in modern-day India, as well as some women's issues and the collision of traditional and modern culture. It ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61479687">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Disappointing. I expected much more when I saw that it was about female infanticide in India, which is a major problem (very low female-to-male ratio--it is estimated that somewhere between 8 and 10 million women are missing from India's population due to sex-selective abortions). But the author's i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35805731">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I so wanted to love this book. The premise is great....a wealthy Indian couple are expecting their 2nd child which an ultrasound has shown to be a girl. They already have a daughter and the husband's parents are adamant about the couple aborting this baby to try to produce a son to carry on the fami...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35750330">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great story, raises interesting questions about what goes on in current day societies. The love story came as no surprise but credit to the author for playing it out the way she did. (am I giving too much away in a review?) Read it in 4 days, and looked forward to picking it up each time.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was shocked at this story.  Had no idea that girl babies were so undesirable in India.  I knew about China-------but maybe 10 millions girl babies have been aborted or let go after birth---in the past 2 decades---why didn't I know this?  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Check out my review at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bookaweekwithjen.blogspot.com/2009/01/book-15-of-52-forbidden-daughter-by.html" title="http://bookaweekwithjen.blogspot.com/2009/01/book-15-of-52-forbidden-daughter-by.html">http://bookaweekwithjen.blogspot.com/200...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An easy ready like watching a Bollywood movie. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Forbidden Daughter]]>
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    <![CDATA[Set in the sensual richness of India, Shobhan Bantwal's gripping new novel asks:  Where can a woman turn when her life's greatest blessing is seen as a curse?  It's a girl! For most young couples, news of their unborn child's gender brings  joyful anticipation. Not so for Isha Tilak and her husband, Nikhil. They already  have a beloved daughter, but Nikhil's parents, hard-wired to favor male children  above all, coldly reject little Priya at every turn. Vain and selfish, they see  female grandchildren as burdens, and would just as soon never meet the one  growing in Isha's belly. Even the obstetrician agrees, going so far as to  suggest the unthinkable, throwing Nikhil into a rage and changing Isha's life  forever. When Nikhil is discovered brutally murdered, Isha is convinced it had  something to do with his reaction to the doctor's hideous &quot;solution&quot; to their  problem. Alone, grief-stricken, and relentlessly oppressed by in-laws who  believe her baby is a bad omen, Isha sets out on her own. Born into a privileged  class, Isha doesn't know the first thing about fending for herself, but to  protect her precious daughters, she will learn. And she will cling to the hope  given to her by a strange old mystic: that her baby will arrive on the  auspicious night of Kojagari Purnima, the full harvest moon, and be a gift from  Lakshmi, the goddess of well-being. Isha and her girls will need all the  blessings they can get, for the greatest danger of all lies ahead. ]]>
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  <published>2008</published>
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    <body><![CDATA[An AMAZING book!]]></body>
    
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