Rebekah C. (selenia) reviewed on 5/7/2009 + 7 more book reviews

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Let me start off by saying Margaret Atwood is a great writer. I've read several of her works and she's very descriptive--I can really "see" the visual images she protrayes (as an example, she described one of her character's lives as "an empty cardboard box abandoned sideways on the road"), however this is not one of her better books. In "Robber Bride" the characters are fully fleshed out at the expense of the plot. The plot is sickly and sacrificed for character development. This book seemed to drag on and on--I wanted to scream "get to the ending already!" and then when the ending did come it seemed rushed--an almost deus ex machina way of conclusion.

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