Thursday, August 27, 2009
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
#338
Title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Authors: Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Year: 2008
Publisher: Dial Press
288 pages
The title alone should warn you off. It screams that preciousness substitutes for writing skill and narrative sophistication. An epistolary novel in which no voice comes off as genuine and the majority of the plot is predictable. Emotion is not communicated well, so the revelation of Rebecca's fate is flat. Light reading for the beach after you're already stunned by sunstroke and just want a predictable, bland romance.
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