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I waited awhile to read this one, and was excited to start it but I'm quite disappointed. This book is gloomy. These women are not strong women who inspire, challenge and glow with life. Nope, they are shallow characters who all wallow in misery stumbling from one crummy situation to another and never seeming to learn values or morals.

Yes it's an historic novel and yes, horrible things happened to people, but I think this novel dwelt on misery. Pomo, who really should have had more insight, destroyed the lives of generations of women because she was so hung up on her love of one man. I found it very frustrating and wanted to shake her. I don't like romance novels and there was too much sighing and crying.

I wonder if this book was written first,honing Davenport's skills so she could write the far better Song of the Exile. Or if Song was written first and she just didn't have two good novels in her.

I didn't finish it. It just kept going on and on with repetitions of death and pain and hate and misery. yadda yadda -- I skipped to the last chapter and my suspicions were validated.

I really wanted to like it.]]>