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    <body><![CDATA[This book must be the result of a massive favour owed to Wagner that the publisher just couldn't get out of.  A lot of tripe spun around an incestuous affair that is neither shocking nor sexy. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The cover photo is the best part of this book. When I first started this I thought the writing was clever, surreal even, but after a while for me that made it just plain confusing. I found it hard to tell which thread of the story I was trying to follow, as it was (deliberately, I think)not made cle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55008719">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[No stars... didn't even finish it. Someone pointed out later that the reviews on amazon were pretty bad also. This was one of those books that the jacket is much more enticing than the actual story.  I gave up about half way through because of the writing style and the lack of consistency. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>&quot;<em>Seizure</em> is terrific.&quot;&#151;Philip Pullman</strong><br/><br/>Raised by her father, Janet is shocked when she learns that she has inherited a house from her mother, long thought dead. The key in hand, Janet travels north to an old stone cottage at the sea's edge.<br/><br/>Tom hides away in an old stone cottage at the sea's edge, waiting. He was raised by his mother, traveling from one place to another, his only stability the stories she told him&#151;stories of shape-shifters, danger, impossible love....When Janet arrives, she is surprised to find Tom and to find herself mysteriously drawn to him.<br/><br/>In Erica Wagner's &quot;haunting debut novel&quot; (<em>San Diego Union-Tribune</em>), lives and stories become so interwoven that, in the end, all distinctions are lost. Reading group guide included.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[not my favorite style of writing.  kind of jagged and poetic and surreal to the point where it steams off the page but you are never really sure if she is talking about being at a wedding or a hospital.  the woman who turns into a seal is cool, though.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book, but there were some points that I would have liked to have seen differently. One of my favorites aspects of this book is the cover photograph. I know, i can jude a book by it cover...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Quite disturbing but mesmerizing, the words leap on to your tongue to tantalize you with its innocent wickedness. Brilliant...read it]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ugh - had to force myself to finish this.  Icky subject matter!!]]></body>
    
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