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Remarkable Creatures
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treehugger
Jan 23, 2010 rated it really liked it
This book is a 3.5, but I rounded up because I read it in 3 days which, when you work as much as I do, says a lot! While not nearly as beautifully written, and certainly containing characters that made me cringe in their falseness (Elizabeth's nephew and his staged questions), this book was compulsively readable, as Chevalier has proven herself in the past.

A neat story, although in trying to stick to the facts she knew about the Philpots she ended up creating fairly 2 dimensional characters in
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