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Orphan Train

Christina Baker Kline

Start date: September 1, 2014

Finish date: September 30, 2014

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Feb 16, 2014 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it really liked it

Shelves: relationships, west

There are a few easy ways to tell if a person loves a story. Sometimes the reader will want to read the book again. Sometimes the reader will tell others about the story. Sometimes the reader will head online or to the library to find other books by the same author or on the same subject. Sometimes the reader will pass the book on to others.

I wanted to do all these things with this book. If you like historical fiction, if you like to read stories with strong emotional content, if you like charac ...more

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Jul 20, 2015 Georgia Carvalho rated it liked it

While I really liked the historical side of the story, the present day element felt more than a little forced and the characters were too flat, almost like caricatures, as if they were an afterthought. The foster mother, the housekeeper and the boyfriend were not portrayed the same way that the historical characters were. The dual timeline felt a bit forced.

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