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Marge Piercy: The Third Child (Paperback, 2004, Harper Perennial) 1 star

Under her mother's constant scrutiny and lost in the shadow of her famous senator father, …

Review of 'The Third Child' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

The whole book was like a car crash. It was messy, bloody, and horrible, but I couldn't look away. Supposedly to be like a modern day Romeo and Juliet, I was highly disappointed. Everything was predictable and boring. From the very beginning, Blake's motives were so apparent but Melissa is too much of an idiot to see it. Blake was a character that really got on my nerves. Maybe it's just me, but his excessive use of "babe" irritated me. He said it just over ten times, but I was already pulling my hair out the first time he said it. This book did not do anything for me at all. I'm not so sure if I'd want to read anymore of Marge's works.