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Little Bee by Chris Cleave
2.0

2 stars for effort. While I appreciated the back-and-forth of the women's stories told in their own voices, swapping chapters seamlessly, it didn't live up to its hype (the back cover is FULL of praise...) and was underwhelming.

My BIGGEST annoyance: the voice of the little kid that thinks he's Batman. I was expecting this book to be a little more serious but ended up reading too much fluff about Batman, the Penguin, goodies and baddies. Had I wanted to read about that, I would've selected DC comics.