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The Mistress's Daughter
by A. M. Homes
from Penguin (Non-Classics)

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Kinda like watching someone else's family videos
  Perhaps if I was adopted or into tracing my family's ancestry, I would have enjoyed this book more. For me, reading this book was like watching someone else's family videos. I could understand how the process was deeply affecting for her, but the story didn't connect with me emotionally.

• Just Awful
  I enjoy reading memoirs so I though I would give this book a shot.
  The audio version was PAINFUL (as in oh, my can I possibly listen to yet another disc) --the voice so dry and monotone with long pauses between words in some instances. The reader almost sounded like she was in a deep deep state of depression and could not go on a minute more. It took me 2 months to finish. I kept thinking it would get better but it never did. Fortunately, I did not pay good money for this so all I was out was for my... more info

• I can't even finish this...
  I picked up this book and started reading it and I honestly have tried to finish but I just can't. I bought it hoping to understand more of what an adoptee might feel. I know, this is what A.M. Homes feels, however, it is so depressing, whiney, and pitiful that I just don't want to go on as it probably will get no better and will most likely become worse. I should know better than to buy a book before reading a review here, which is what I did this time. I won't make that mistake again!

• boring, mediocre writing
  The writer doesn't do a good job of describing her life and who she is, so it's hard to care about what happens to her. Maybe it would work if you were already a fan of her writing, but I was unfamiliar with the writer when I picked up this book. The book is oddly paced; for some reason she builds up a lot of anticipation about the second time she meets her birth mother but doesn't build up the drama in other places where one would expect it. What is she thinking and feeling as these things are unfolding?... more info

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