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The House Girl by Tara Conklin

The House Girl

by Tara Conklin
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  • Feb 12, 2013, 336 pages
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  • Nov 2013, 384 pages
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  • Sandra C. (Rensselaer, New York)
    The House Girl
    While the subject is interesting I found the weaving in of the sub-plots disjointed and not as developed as they could have been. As a member of a book club, I do not think book clubs would enjoy having this book for discussion. I think there were to many characters in the book, all who could have been developed more.
  • Catherine H. (Nashua, NH)
    I really wanted to like this book....
    This is a good average book with the parallel stories of Josephine Bell, a slave in 1852 Virginia and Lina Sparrow, an attorney working on a slavery class action case in 2004 New York. I could not connect with Lina's story, sometimes borderline Harlequin romance type of story, and honestly could not have care less. I would have been a great book if the author based her story on Josephine and only Josephine and people gravitating around her. Too many of characters stories were undeveloped and let me guessing.

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