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Rating: 2* of five
I have no memory of when I read this blah little excursion into pointlessness. The translation was perfectly fine, I'm informed by a bilingual Italian, so I say with confidence:
~meh~
I can't abide comparisons of this tedious twaddle to Jane Austen...there is absolutely not one scintilla of the genius that is Austen in this ponderous pile of pablum, this blancmange of a book. It will, as I see has been commented before, be perfectly adequate television. Though not tel ...more
I have no memory of when I read this blah little excursion into pointlessness. The translation was perfectly fine, I'm informed by a bilingual Italian, so I say with confidence:
~meh~
I can't abide comparisons of this tedious twaddle to Jane Austen...there is absolutely not one scintilla of the genius that is Austen in this ponderous pile of pablum, this blancmange of a book. It will, as I see has been commented before, be perfectly adequate television. Though not tel ...more

Jan 11, 2017
Melissa Rochelle
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This is one of those books that I finish and am so sad I'm not in a book group so I can talk about it. I finished the book and immediately turned to Jesse to tell him about how shocking the ending was. It's one of those stories your girlfriends would tell you about her third cousin's wedding or something. The I-can't-believe-that-happened of it all. Oh! The drama! HE DID WHAT?!
I was not expecting to love this book. I am totally one of those people that picks a book because of the cover and this ...more
I was not expecting to love this book. I am totally one of those people that picks a book because of the cover and this ...more

Nov 02, 2014
Karen Michele Burns
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