Kelly Mustian

While I kept on reading this book just to see what would happen, I found it to be somewhat improbable, which kept those critical thoughts at the forefront of my mind. The novel takes place in the 20s in the bayou country of Louisiana. Ada is a white girl who has run away but returned pregnant to her abusive father's home. She is eventually rescued, in a manner of speaking, by a black girl who teaches her what she needs to know to make it on her own. I was sorry for the girls and the lives that they had experienced, and I wanted them to succeed in everything they did. That kept me reading.… (altro)

Not sure why so much hype and praise has been given to this book.
The writing is fine, but it was difficult to really care about the two main characters as they were not well developed, and became stereotypes of what you would expect.
The bigger problem is this is the authors first book. Prior to this she has written short stories.
This should have been around 125-150 pages. Instead it is 350 pages. Yes basically 200 pages of filler that add very little to the story. Too much of this book just dragged on and on and nothing happened.
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