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Why are 50% of the reviews from the past couple of days less than three stars, yet this book has an overall rating of 4.31 stars? Is this book a magnet for paid-for reviews while those who spend their hard-earned money on it don't like it?

Em When I first started reading this book, my reaction was "Oh.. it's like "The Bell Jar" but a little less problematic. Then, a few chapters later, Nora…moreWhen I first started reading this book, my reaction was "Oh.. it's like "The Bell Jar" but a little less problematic. Then, a few chapters later, Nora started quoting Plath's fig tree quotation (Which I assume is the concept that inspired the novel). My guess for the mixed reviews would be a mixed audience. It's not a bad book per se, it's just incredibly simple. I've read two of Haig's books thus far and he seems like the type of author who frames his books around a core theme & then proceeds to spend the novel beating you over the head with it. But I also recognize the reason I feel this way is because during my BA I spent many pain-staking nights trying to derive meaning from several hundred-year-old texts. Not to sound like a huge snob or anything, it's just a big change when you go from having to do so much leg work to understand what you're reading to then reading a contemporary novel(less)

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