Fuzzy Urchin

Tedious

Revisado: 04-29-24

It dragged on. The end was especially long winded. And how many times can “proprietess” be used in one book? There is surely an award for this.

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Contrived

Revisado: 04-01-24

It would be nice if stories were just stories and not tools for political grandstanding.

The characters weren’t likable. Even the heroine. She wasn’t UNlikeable, she was just so boring.

Spoiler alert here. The topic of incestuous rape was way too easily forgiven and blown off as normal as well as the mother’s dismissal of it. It’s ugly and ugliness and I can’t read this author any more after how she introduced and handled this topic. It’s appalling.

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No likeable characters

Revisado: 03-25-24

The characters were all emotionally immature. There are no physicians who behave like the main character, certainly not in response to other people behaving badly. The way they pieced things together based on feelings was trite and not believable.

I have a hard time stopping books without an ending or I’d have just stopped this book. It feels it was written by a 14 year old.

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Unlikeable

Revisado: 03-20-24

I couldn’t keep going. There was so much effort spent talking about how the dad “shouldn’t have lied” when he didn’t tell a 5 year old a terrifying and gruesome story. I disagree vehemently with the sentiment.

The idea that very small children need to know all the inappropriate things spreads and spreads and I just can’t.

Nope.

This book sucks.

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Not her best work

Revisado: 06-02-23

I was really distracted by the complete lack of research and knowledge of the areas the story was set in. There’s an 8 hr drive in good weather between Coeur D’Alene and Boise. There is no way you can go there and back in one day, especially during a whiteout storm. The CDA hospital would never have sent a child to a Boise hospital. He would have gone to Shriners 20 minutes W in Spokane.

None of this is hidden knowledge.

The people of N Idaho are not the backwards bucks painted.

I’ve always loved her work; her social messaging is usually subtle and effective. This book was heavy handed a la “waterworld.” And the logistics, etc, with the settings just made the whole thing flat for me.

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Blaming a child for murder?

Revisado: 08-15-22

What the heck is wrong with people? The ending of this book is pure abuse. I’m beside myself with anger and upset over how this could possibly be.

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Revisionist history

Revisado: 08-03-22

The book hails Margaret Sanger as a hero while eschewing (rightfully so) eugenics. So which is it? You can’t have it both ways.

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How did the narrator get hired?

Revisado: 03-02-21

I tried. I really did. The narrator is terrible. Horrible. Has no grasp on how people talk. Cannot read aloud. She treats every punctuation mark like a period and speaks in a song song. It’s so so bad.

I like this author, but I can’t listen to this any longer. It’s actually sometimes hard to understand sometimes, based on her lack of understanding of punctuation functions. Otherwise, it’s just too annoying.

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Loathe some characters

Revisado: 10-12-20

I’m not sure why I even finished this book. I suppose I was hoping the characters would redeem themselves.

How is Kendra even a friend? She gets angry that Dodie is going through traumas and isn’t “there” to talk about her new boyfriend? She lays on the guilt that D’s library was closed for a couple of days? People “rely” on her FREE work?

The story proffers the idea that a single woman “isn’t ready” for children, and that the volunteer work D is doing is more important? That because she’s never had a child before, she could t be ready?

And Shep is a loser, too. A liar and a manipulator.

I’m so disheartened after finishing this book. The author should be ashamed that she put this forward as some sort of “forward thinking adult way of seeing things” piece.

If the environment of this book accepts outright abusive relationships as normal and healthy and it’s dangerous.

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If you can get past the sing song limerick cadence ...

Revisado: 10-24-19

I’m not sure I can make it past the terrible performance. It’s like she’s reading a nursery rhyme or limerick. EMT he end of every segment or sentence ends on an uptick.

Her accents are beautiful. But oh my god the cadence is unbearable.

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