Jennifer M. reviewed on
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Like others have said, I also waited and waited for THE BIG SURPRISE.
Quite simply, it didn't exist. I don't understand why the book is hyped with this big ending secret...that doesn't exist.
I did not find the characters believable at all. Little Bee is a refugee who has only spent two years in a detention center in London, yet somehow she knows to ask if the little boy is allowed to watch TV before breakfaast? These little flaws drove me crazy. A Nigerian child refugee would have NO understanding of the daily life of the British, even if she somehow did read every British book while in the detention center. She was a child, for god's sake! Cute character in many ways...but completely not believable.
The boy Charlie also drove me crazy with the annyong way he spoke. It just got old. And it never made sense why Lawrence would have been so incredibly mean to Little Bee.
Don't waste your time. It's a quick, easy read, but the big pay-off is never there.
Quite simply, it didn't exist. I don't understand why the book is hyped with this big ending secret...that doesn't exist.
I did not find the characters believable at all. Little Bee is a refugee who has only spent two years in a detention center in London, yet somehow she knows to ask if the little boy is allowed to watch TV before breakfaast? These little flaws drove me crazy. A Nigerian child refugee would have NO understanding of the daily life of the British, even if she somehow did read every British book while in the detention center. She was a child, for god's sake! Cute character in many ways...but completely not believable.
The boy Charlie also drove me crazy with the annyong way he spoke. It just got old. And it never made sense why Lawrence would have been so incredibly mean to Little Bee.
Don't waste your time. It's a quick, easy read, but the big pay-off is never there.
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