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Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

Finish date: December 19, 2010

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Oct 10, 2017 Carrie rated it it was ok

Shelves: animals, historical-fiction, male-pov, annoying-characters, circus

So much of this book I did not like. The characters were not enjoyable. It had moments that got me, there where moments that I thought why am I reading this?. I enjoyed the older Jacob more then younger Jacob at times. But the whole 90 er 93 thing got OLD FAST!

The best part of the book was the end. The last say 15% or so of the novel was what made me give it not under 2 stars. It was for a challenge that me not DNF the book.

2.5 stars

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May 04, 2010 Dawnie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

I love a story that you can get lost it. This book just flew by for me and had a great ending! I had read a romance a few months back that dealt with a girl having to learn to live in a modern day circus and there were a lot of similarities in this story. I am intrigued and will most likely look for some more stories similar to this one.

Good pick TC!!!

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Nov 19, 2014 Krissy rated it liked it

Shelves: audiobook, tagged-classics, pgs-300-399, book2film, oops-i-m-pregnant

**2015 Reading Challenge W/Josh: #34 A Book With A Love Triangle**

I enjoyed this book. A lot. But I wouldn't put it in the unputdownable category. Because of that I couldn't rate it 4 stars. I thought it was extremely well written and I will definitely be checking out this author again.

The story and characters were great(both the good and the bad). Sweet Rosie stole the show for me though. I adored her. I thought the ending was perfectly done. Kudos to the author for that.

Final rating: 3.5 Sta ...more

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