I enjoyed some aspects of this novel - it's a sweet, old-fashioned story and the central characters (two sisters) are likeable. But I found the writing very amateurish (for example, the two sisters tell each other how old they are for the reader's benefit!) and clunky, and the plot predictable, plodding and in places ridiculous. The deficiencies in the writing meant I was never quite able to suspend my disbelief and immerse myself in the characters' world - I was always aware that I was being told a story (badly!), rather than living it with the characters.
The story rambled about all over the place, and went on far, far too long. There were some bits of the plot that were laughable. The two sisters at one point live minutes' walk from each other, but don't meet for weeks - not, at this stage, because they've fallen out, but because one of them is 'too busy' (in other words, purely for the sake of the plot!).
The text was riddled with grammatical and typographical errors - it doesn't seem to have been properly edited, which is odd given that the cover and general look of the book are very nice. Style over substance?!
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