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| This book is incredible. It is so tightly plotted, the characters are so real, the story so compelling you can't put it down except to marvel at how you can't believe you never heard of this novel before. Seriously, not one contemporary novel that I'...more | |
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| Picked this up on the basis of the title, which I loved. Good read, although it felt a little dated. It was nice to read a novel wherein the heroine accepts responsibility for what befalls her. She is no-nonsense in that respect. You cannot always un...more | |
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| Well-researched, but I found this to be a little over the top for my taste. Too many far-fetched plot contrivances. | |
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| This book reads so modern that you would think that Wharton was writing about the fame-hungering, money-grabbing celebrities of today. Instead of a Kardashian, however, we have Undine, the most vapid, vain, grasping heroine a novel has ever seen. Wat...more | |
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| Disappointing. I liked the idea of a novel following a character who lived through an Orphan Train experience, but this book failed to deliver. Vivian's character was promising, but her story just kind of fizzled. Plus, the coincidence of her (view s...more | |
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| Decided to read the sequel to MIss Buncle. Good, clean English fun. | |
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