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Book Review of Fingersmith

Fingersmith
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Helpful Score: 2


This book is powerfully provacative and intriguing. I was not expecting the love affair between the two heroines. It stands to reason, though, because of the way the two women were treated by the men in their lives. I also found myself routing for one of the bad guys, even though he tricked and swindled both the women. I felt a little sorrow for the uncle, even though he made his living writing pornography. The book, however, is hot about pornography. The book is about how hard and dishonest yet truthful life can be. The story is twisted and intertwined and hard to explain; one really has to read it to understand the captivity of it. I don't too often give a book five stars, but this one gets five for its originality, depth, and how it evokes emotion in the reader. It is by far the best book I have picked up this year.