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Maplecroft (The Borden Dispatches, #1)

Cherie Priest

Start date: December 12, 2014

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Aug 22, 2014 Morgan rated it did not like it

Shelves: fiction, horror, paranormal, young-adult, kindle-read, alternate-history, american-history

Between the fact that I cannot say enough good things about I Am Princess X and the fact that this is about Lizzie Borden, I expected to LOVE this book.

As it turns out, I really, really did not.

I slogged through it from start to finish and I can't even tell you why I didn't just stop reading. Maybe I was just convinced that it really had to get better.

I was wrong.

I am also vastly in the minority, so more power to you if you loved it. That cover is gorgeous though. Five stars for that alone. ...more

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