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  • This books barely gets marks above regretful. If you are looking for a book that is going to ramble on about every event in history from Vietnam to the Holocaust, while trying to include stories about the environment, family and Republican bashing (but failing completely) then you should read this ... Continue

    This books barely gets marks above regretful. If you are looking for a book that is going to ramble on about every event in history from Vietnam to the Holocaust, while trying to include stories about the environment, family and Republican bashing (but failing completely) then you should read this book.

    If you like a book with a point and believable characters, skip this one.

    The writing was not completely horrible, saving it from 1 star. Except for that every character sounded almost completely the same, including the young girl in the story. Yay.

    I wanted to finish it so badly because I kept thinking there would be a point which would be revealed at the end, but unless the only point was to mock Republicans for stereotypes, then I totally missed it. Boring with a capital B.

    

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