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There just passed what could gave been a fascinating, exciting adventurous plot point: a crashed Nazi airman having to squat in an abandoned local cottage and escape in women's clothing. This plot point was dealt with in two pages with a few sentences of dialogue from Emma's brothers and a description of a newspaper report? Every time I think there is about to be a development in the story it brushes over it? Why?
— Sep 15, 2015 06:59AM
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Sep 02, 2015 01:34PM
I don't know if I have the energy to finish this. Never before has a children's story had prose and dialogue of such an inconsistent style. This is supposed to be a wartime story and it feels like it's set in the 1990s. The prepubescent female protagonist communicates like a middle-aged woman. The presentation of dialects is equally confusing; as a reader I sometimes feel as though I've travelled the length and breadth of Britain whilst reading a single sentence. The story itself and the setting had my hopes up so high and absolutely none of my expectations are being met. I really hope some deeper level of character or plot shows itself very soon or I'm going to do something I almost never do: give up on a book.
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