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Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe

Melissa de la Cruz

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Darcy Fitzwilliam is 29, beautiful, successful, and brilliant. She dates hedge funders and...

What Lot's Wife Saw

Ioanna Bourazopoulou and Yiannis Panas

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It's been twenty-five years since the Overflow flooded Southern Europe, drowning Rome, Vienna and...

Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency

James Andrew Miller

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An astonishing—and astonishingly entertaining—history of Hollywood’s transformation over the...

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Roxanne (13 KP) rated The Undertaker's Daughter in Books

Nov 9, 2018

4 Stars

I have always been interested in looking into the ins and outs of funeral homes and so this book definitely caught my interest. I found it very difficult to put down and found that it was quite well written. The combination of eccentric characters were thought provoking and at times inspirational.
There are, however, some reasons why I could not give this book five stars. The first reason is because of the depth when it came to certain aspects of the process of preparing the bodies for the funerals. The lead character seemed to be very interested at times in her father's work yet when he chose to explain it in detail she backed out and didn't want to know anymore...often to do with her feeling uncomfortable. This was a little frustrating as admittedly I wanted to know all of the details. The second reason is the distance created between the lead character, Kate, and the reader. After I had finished the book I had to look at the front of the book to read the author's name as I couldn't remember it. Kate is not called or mentioned by her name within the book, this for me created a distance. The third and final reason is the lack of ages being mentioned. Time often moved back and forwards within the book telling us about different times in Kate's life, but it didn't give us her age. There were times when I just thought...so when did that happen? How old was she? How old were her sisters when that happened? This led to some of the back stories being a bit muddled and unclear but they were still very interesting to read.