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Jun 15, 2015romantique1915 rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
As auspicious as it appeared, and as favourable the reviews by competent authors were, this mediocre novel with its poorly thought out plot was a great disappointment on so many levels. First of all, anyone comparing the heroine, Nora to Hermione must be either blind or illiterate because this insipid, supposed graduate student of English literature spends much of her story in either complete idiocy ( who in their right mind seeing a glass of punch in the middle of the forest decides to drink it?) or whining about the patriarchal society that she has wandered into. Random seemingly important allusions (who IS EJ, anyway?) which in any other novel would prove to be significant to the climax of the story are here just as unimportant as they appear to be, and are more annoying for their lack of import. One has to wonder whether the editor even bothered to read the manuscript before sending this book, incredible in its redundancy, to print. What makes this all the more confusing is that Barker herself apparently holds a degree from Harvard. Evidently, it is not in either English or Journalism, both of which generally teach their students how to formulate an intelligent written work, and how to do research on the topic at hand.