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Claudia Silver To The Rescue (2013)

by Kathy Ebel(Favorite Author)

2.67 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0547985576 (ISBN13: 9780547985572)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: I'm torn on how to rate this one. On the one hand, I thought the writing was sharp and solid. On the other, I had very little sympathy or empathy for Claudia, who makes a colossally stupid decision pretty early on in the story that left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I picked this up because it had a Lauren Graham pull quote on the front, and it definitely had a similar feel and setting to Someday, Someday Maybe, but I just couldn't quite get over the Super Bad Choices that Claudia made. Still, I tore through this in a single sitting and will definitely read more by this author.
review 2: I just really did not like this book, though I can't really put my finger on why. I think it just rubbed me the wrong way. Can a book do that? I really liked the title but I... more guess the old adage about judging a book by its cover should be extended to not judging it by its title too. Claudia was just a really unsypathetic character and I didn't find anything realistic about her. None of the characters rang true to me. I guess it seemed really stereotypical...she sleeps with the angry black man, is roommates with the rich wasp, has a younger sister who is the only white girl in the ghetto. And don't get me started on the affair with the older man. Who would really do that, especially in this context. I had to force myself to finish this one and probably would have just quit midway through (which I harly ever do) except that I had already listed it as my currently reading book on here and hate to let my goodreads profile down! less

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