The Savage Garden
I wholeheartedly agree with your comments. I was really disappointed. The main character as you said was extremely weak in fact all the characters were really stereotyped and very stilted. I felt that the actual style of writing was particularly bad, very wooden and clumsy. Also at the beginning of the book I had to keep going back and re-reading bits as it was very disjointed.
I surprised myself by actually finishing it. These days I normally give up if I don't like a book, but perservered with this one as it was set in Italy.
To sum up what a load of rubbish!! We bought the hardback as well.
Happy reading
Nicola (Umbria)
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