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Life Sentences
Life Sentences
Author: Laura Lippman
Author Cassandra Fallows has achieved remarkable success by baring her life on the page. Her two widely popular memoirs continue to sell briskly, acclaimed for their brutal, unexpurgated candor about friends, family, lovers— -- and herself. But now, after a singularly unsuccessful stab at fiction, Cassandra believes she may have found the s...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780061128899
ISBN-10: 0061128899
Publication Date: 3/1/2009
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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3.1 stars, based on 70 ratings
Publisher: William Morrow
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Helpful Score: 3
I have loved all of Lippman's stand alone books, but this one was really a big disappointment! Very boring and hard to even make it through...don't bother with this one.
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Helpful Score: 3
I am an avid reader of Laura Lippman and usually love her books. Not this one, I thought this was horrible; it was a book about an author doing research to write a book. I would much rather her researched it and then wrote the book it would have been much better. There are so many characters in this book that the author even gets them mixed up and at one point uses the wrong name for the character that she is talking about. There is a twist at the end but was not a good enough twist to redeem the rest of the book.
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Helpful Score: 2
Enjoyed the premise; good storyline. Seemed overly wordy at times.
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Helpful Score: 1
Disappointing. Did not hold my interest and did not finish.
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Helpful Score: 1
I expected this book to be a mystery about Callie Jenkins and her missing baby. What happened to the baby? Who's the baby's father? What's the big secret? Instead, this book was about race relations, class structure and the lies parents tell their kids to protect them. I thought the ending was unsatisfying. I just wished for more from this book. Not in the same league as "To the Power of Three".

And boy were there a lot of affairs! It was almost as if there was pro-affair propaganda going on.
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Extremely DISAPPOINTED in this book ! Thought it was just terribly boring!!!
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This is the first Laura Lippman book I have read and it will probably be the last. I had a hard time getting through this boring story.
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I enjoyed "What The Dead Know" so I was eager to pick up this book, but it did not hold up for me. I could get over my dislike for the main character, but I could not suspend belief with regard to the other characters and their actions. Here and there, an interesting moment, but not much more.


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