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Original Sin by Beth Mcmullen

Original Sin

A Sally Sin Adventure

by Beth Mcmullen

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  • Jul 2011, 304 pages
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Helen M. (Petaluma, CA)

Unbelieveable
I hung in there and read the whole book but for me it was just unbelievable. Lucy and Sally are way too far apart. She has a husband and child and is a spy? Each character could evolve into a great subject for a book but I just could not grasp that they worked together. So, sadly, instead of laughing, which I would have loved, I was puzzled.
Katherine Y. (Albuquerque, NM)

Fun Idea, Terrible Execution
I selected this book based on my enjoyment of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. The concept of this book seemed to hold the same promise for humorous crime solving. Given the large publicity campaign cited on the back of the book, I can't believe the publisher didn't spend a little more time working with the author on the actual text. The author fails to follow one of the first rules of writing which is to "show, not tell." In her telling of this tale she manages to make being a mother sound boring (and the three-year-old sound like a total brat) and then she makes being a spy sound boring. When she triesmore

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