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I didn't like the story or the characters, but I loved the writing. I understand why the main character is SO ANNOYING (weird stunted lonely childhood, life lived too much in books, strange distant/suffocating parents, etc) but I still found her exasperating and dense and silly. What I loved was the use of analogies - the descriptive writing was very fun to read and there was a lot of interesting use of language. The plot had so much promise and then I found myself so annoyed and frustrated by S
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Fun read for Bronte fans. Samantha Whipple is the last remaining descendant of Patrick Bronte & heir to the "vast Bronte estate" that no one can seem to find. Samantha is attending Oxford, reading English literature with her oh-so-Mr.-Rochester-like tutor, when she starts receiving mysterious deliveries of Bronte books belonging to her father's library - except his library burned down several years ago in a house fire. So who is leaving her the books? And how does that relate to finding her inhe
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